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From: "François Bissey" <f.r.bissey@×××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] sage-4.3.5-r1 && sage-core
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:02:22
Message-Id: 201004192236.01946.f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] sage-4.3.5-r1 && sage-core by "François Bissey"
1 > > In my opinion, the best "solution" would be to print out a warning/info
2 > > after installing sage-core which basically says revdep-rebuild reports
3 > > false positives and just wait for the Sage people upgrading to a new
4 > > release of Singular (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8059
5 > > and
6 > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8228).
7 >
8 > Hi Christopher,
9 >
10 > A warning is good but I would prefer to to put the libraries linking
11 > to libsingular in quarantine for revdep-rebuild until that happens.
12 > Otherwise revdep-rebuild will always want to rebuild sage-core again
13 > and again. Furthermore:
14 > 1) we cannot count on users reading the warning.
15 > 2) during any genuine call to revdep-rebuild to catch other stuff
16 > sage-core will be added and considering the time it takes it is
17 > not nice.
18 >
19 I did go ahead and added a revdep-rebuild exception file.
20 The problem has completely disappeared now.
21
22 Francois

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Re: [gentoo-science] sage-4.3.5-r1 && sage-core Christopher Schwan <cschwan@××××××××××××××××××.de>