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On 01/24/2010 01:20 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> 2010/1/24 Petteri Räty<betelgeuse@g.o>: |
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>> On 01/24/2010 03:02 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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>> Why should we keep redundant information in the list? |
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> How is that redundant? |
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Well, I doubt we'll get away from python in the system set anytime soon, |
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but imagine the results of having a policy that anything that is a |
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dependency of something in system needs to be in system. |
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Now the system set is three times larger than it is now. There is also |
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no easy way to tell whether something is in the set simply because it is |
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a dependency. Then in the future if something is no longer a dependency |
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it will be installed on every gentoo system unnecessarily. |
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Sure, we can clean things up every once in a while, and maybe even |
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automate that, but what would be the point. |
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The whole reason we have dependency management in our package managers |
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is so that you don't have to worry about details like what package |
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requires what. Package managers shouldn't make it trivial to |
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accidentally remove a dependency in an unsafe manner |
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Rich |
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