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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage version resolution deficiencies
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:05:32
Message-Id: 200403251903.54539.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage version resolution deficiencies by Jason Stubbs
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4 On Wednesday 24 March 2004 04:01, Jason Stubbs wrote:
5 > I must have missed your last message, but yes portage's dependency
6 > resolution is lacking. I just rewrote the dependency checker for other
7 > purposes so understand fairly well how it works, but have never looked at
8 > addressing these problems before. I previously thought that the main issue
9 > was speed but, after a quick attempt, I found that the main issue is really
10 > reverse dependencies.
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12 Err.. I meant circular dependencies. It was 4am! :)
13 What Paul said still applies though.
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15 Regards,
16 Jason Stubbs
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