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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:41:37 +0200 |
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Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> > No, your goal is to provide a distribution. Gentoo has repeatedly |
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> > shot itself in the foot, leg, groin etc by favouring short-term |
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> > hacks over a well thought out, validated, self-enforcing design. |
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> > Right now nearly all of the package manager work is on paying off |
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> > previously incurred technical debt, and in the mean time you're |
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> > busy adding to it. |
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> The problem here is that we (or, at least, I) are a bit unsure about |
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> how this could be handled better and, then, try to use that better |
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> way in the future. If you (or any) have some suggestion, it would be |
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> nice :) |
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It is handled better by working out what exactly the problem is, and if |
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you can't implement it nicely using existing features, then not |
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implementing it at all until you have suitable features. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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