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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: New idea: auto dependency builder.
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:09:01 -0700
On 03/20/2011 12:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> Hi Александр,
> 
> On 19-03-2011 20:21:30 +0000, Александр Берсенев wrote:
>> my name is Alexander Besenev, 21. I am russian Computer Science
>> student/bachelor.
>>
>> I have an idea on future GSoC 2011. It is described here:
>> http://alexbers.dyndns.org/gsoc/ .
>> I hope to find a mentor, who will be interested with this idea.
> 
> I quickly glanced over your proposal.  Here are some questions:
> - how often is "often" in "on unstable branch compiling often fails
>   due.."
> - have you looked into the preseved-libs feature of Portage-2.2? you may
>   want to at least refer to it in your proposal

This auto dependency builder might be useful as a feedback system for
reporting ABI changes, which can be used to add ABI metadata to ebuilds
in order to trigger automatic rebuild of reverse dependencies as
discussed in this bug:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192319
-- 
Thanks,
Zac


References:
New idea: auto dependency builder.
-- Александр Берсенев
Re: New idea: auto dependency builder.
-- Fabian Groffen
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