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Samuli Suominen: |
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> So, -1, useless rebuilds is one of the biggest problems lately |
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I am not sure if that is a joke. |
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We have: |
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* a broken PM which does incomplete dep calculation, gives wrong |
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suggestions to the user, has totally useless error/debug output, |
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randomly fails to remove files, allows to break your system in numerous |
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ways and whatnot... and I'm not going through bugzilla now to prove it |
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* overcomplex eclasses, because people try to avoid getting stuff into |
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the PM, resulting in more confusion for the PM |
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* repeatedly broken stable packages |
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* people coding against a PM instead of PMS and thus relying on |
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undocumented behavior and breaking the "meta-distribution" part of gentoo |
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* a PM codebase no one wants to be involved in |
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and you tell me the biggest problems are useless rebuilds? |
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Reality check, please. (btw... I didn't come up with the subslot idea, |
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so maybe check with those guys about useless rebuilds) |
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Removing dynamic deps is an easy way to improve the strictness of |
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portage, adhere better to PMS and improve compatibility with other PMs. |
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After that, we can discuss if there is a _sane_ way to avoid such rebuilds. |
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