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On pon, 2017-04-10 at 17:18 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > Python used not to use TARGETS. The results were random |
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> > incompatibilities between packages that were hard to track and random |
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> > breakage. Now we're past that. But I can understand it's not the |
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> > Gentoo of your times where user was expected to watch his every step |
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> > to have his system boot again. |
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> This has nothing to do with booting. This BS broke my build server. |
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> Many times over many years have I had to mess with Python targets. Now |
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> with Ruby its double. It was mostly the headache as a system admin |
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> having emerges not run due to unmet requirements etc. |
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So, to summarize: you want to destroy a reasonably reliable dependency |
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system in favor of thing that randomly explodes because you failed at |
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hacking at it? |
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Well, you've already dismissed the users for which it works out of |
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the box... obviously they're not a proper Gentoo users if they don't |
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break their system and then complain that Gentoo is doing everything |
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wrong because they can break their systems. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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