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On 28-03-2009 19:47:48 +0100, Stanislav Ochotnický wrote: |
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> 2009/3/28 Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com>: |
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> > 2009/3/28 Stanislav Ochotnický <sochotnicky@×××××.com>: |
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> >> Let the brainstorm begin... |
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> > I'm sitting here wondering, why I'd want this. what problem does it solve? |
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> You mean the whole general idea I guess. |
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> Anyway...If nothing else I'd love to see "this package will take XXX |
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> MB of space after installation" BEFORE I actually emerge the damn |
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> thing. With binary packages that's obvious. Source distributions are |
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> harder of course, because of CFLAGS, compiler, optimizations etc.. But |
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> basic approximation of size would be nice. |
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Also, I more than once have found myself in a situation where I wondered |
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where certain file X would come from. In such case it would be nice to |
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be able to put a query somewhere and see what package it belongs to. |
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Note that this is not `qfile X`, because it's not on my system, but more |
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something like, ok, I do have texlive, but I want package Y, which on |
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Debian apparently is called P, and provides the essential file X, what |
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is the corresponding package in Gentoo? |
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There are more examples here of why this is a nice to have. |
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> One more thing though. With tree-wide collision checking we would be |
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> able to semi-automatically add blocking info into ebuilds for |
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> colliding packages. Now it's up to people to find out "Oh. These two |
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> packages are colliding". Mainstream packages are of course handled, |
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> because lot of people are using them. But more obscure packages could |
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> be problematic. This project would help fix this situation. |
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Or perhaps still do it "runtime", but just before you went through the |
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hassle compiling the entire thing, by downloading the list of files, and |
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checking if they would collide. Would nicely work together with how |
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much space it would require anyway, since you might have different |
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mountpoints and would like to know what will be placed where. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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