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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us> wrote: |
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> WTF is up with it? Why does it love the first Atom so much more than the |
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> others? |
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> It could be such a useful feature, but, in practice, it just never seems to |
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> do what I want it to. Is it a bug? |
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Well, more like unspecified behavior. PMS just says that the PM has |
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to accept any package in the list. It is silent on the matter of |
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which one is to be preferred, or to what degree. |
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As we saw with upower portage will jump through quite a few hoops to |
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install the first dependency - it doesn't always figure out that |
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installing one of the others is easier. It is a bit hard to |
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algorithmically define "easier" - should portage favor fewer package |
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installs, fewer removals, fewer config file changes, avoiding changing |
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the init system (and what constitutes an init system), etc? Plus, |
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there are a lot of potential permutations to deal with. |
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You'd probably need to be more specific as to what is going on to get further. |
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I think most would agree that there is room for improvement here. |
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Rich |
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