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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 13 October 2011 14:15:54 Sebastian Luther wrote: |
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>> WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency |
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>> conflict: |
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>> dev-python/numpy:0 |
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>> (dev-python/numpy-1.6.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts |
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>> with ~dev-python/numpy-1.5.1 required by |
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>> (sci-mathematics/sage-4.7.1-r2::sage-on-gentoo, installed) |
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>> dev-python/pexpect:0 |
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>> (dev-python/pexpect-2.4-r1::sage-on-gentoo, ebuild scheduled for |
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>> merge) conflicts with ~dev-python/pexpect-2.0 required by |
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>> (sci-mathematics/sage-4.7.1-r2::sage-on-gentoo, installed) |
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>> Fact is that sci-mathematics/sage can't be made work without those deps. |
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>> Fact is that I want this package and couldn't care less if I have the |
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>> latest version of these other two packages. |
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>> If in turn I cared for the other two packages, then I would have to |
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>> remove sage. It's a choice but nothing else. |
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> it's a crap choice. users shouldn't have to select from diff sets of packages |
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> because some are too broken to work properly. it's a bug and needs to be |
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> fixed. and it shouldn't require twisting of arms to make people fix their |
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> broken packages. |
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I think you are misrepresenting the choice a bit here. If we aim for |
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high quality in gentoo-x86 by avoiding deps like this I fear the |
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choice will not be 'broken foo' or 'working foo' but instead 'broken |
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foo' or 'no foo' as packages get masked and removed for not keeping up |
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with the joneses. |
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Don't get me wrong; I get the impression that there exist vast swaths |
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of gentoo-x86 that are ...I'll use the term 'poorly maintained' and it |
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would be good to get some of that stuff out. However I doubt our users |
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would agree that this is necessarily 'better'. |
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> also, sci-mathematics/sage is a poor example here. it isn't in the main tree. |
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> if people want to add poor packages to their overlays, they're free to. |
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> -mike |
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