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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:38:52
Message-Id: 4E4386AE.70308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND by Fabio Erculiani
1 On 08/11/2011 12:13 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
2 > 1. implement the ASAP feature in Entropy and live with broken dependencies
3 > 2. live with broken dependencies
4 > 3. Fix the broken dependencies
5 > 4. Fix the broken dependencies and have PMS defining rules for
6 > scheduling PDEPENDs.
7
8 It's fair enough for you to call them "broken" dependencies. However,
9 when writing "broken" dependencies it what comes natural to ebuild
10 developers, is it practical to fight them even though you can write your
11 dependency resolver to cope with it?
12 --
13 Thanks,
14 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>