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From: Christopher Schwan <cschwan@××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] sage-4.3.5-r1 && sage-core
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:02:22
Message-Id: 201004191304.57633.cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] sage-4.3.5-r1 && sage-core by "François Bissey"
1 On Monday 19 April 2010 12:36:01 François Bissey wrote:
2 > > > In my opinion, the best "solution" would be to print out a warning/info
3 > > > after installing sage-core which basically says revdep-rebuild reports
4 > > > false positives and just wait for the Sage people upgrading to a new
5 > > > release of Singular (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8059
6 > > > and
7 > > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8228).
8 > >
9 > > Hi Christopher,
10 > >
11 > > A warning is good but I would prefer to to put the libraries linking
12 > > to libsingular in quarantine for revdep-rebuild until that happens.
13 > > Otherwise revdep-rebuild will always want to rebuild sage-core again
14 > > and again. Furthermore:
15 > > 1) we cannot count on users reading the warning.
16 > > 2) during any genuine call to revdep-rebuild to catch other stuff
17 > > sage-core will be added and considering the time it takes it is
18 > > not nice.
19 >
20 > I did go ahead and added a revdep-rebuild exception file.
21 > The problem has completely disappeared now.
22 >
23 > Francois
24
25 Ok, fine !
26
27 Christopher