Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:12:54
Message-Id: 20120607190822.033e8452@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Zac Medico
1 On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:03:25 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > > You're missing out on a brilliant opportunity to encourage
4 > > developers put in a bit more work to save users a huge amount of
5 > > pain here.
6 >
7 > What about cases like the dbus-glib and glib:2 dependency, where it's
8 > just too much trouble to use SLOT operator deps? Wouldn't it be better
9 > to have a little flexibility, so that we can accommodate more
10 > packages?
11
12 Then if it really is "too much trouble", which is another way of saying
13 "it's a thousand times more work for a developer to get it right than
14 it is for a user to deal with it", you can use blockers.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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