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On 27 September 2013 03:10, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> app-text/poppler |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462020 |
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Reading this bug re-fuels my wish for virtuals to un-happen. Maintaining a |
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virtual with a massive list of || ( ) conditions is so so painful, |
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especially considering their nature being they're communicating information |
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thats better communicated in the inverse. |
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ie: every time there is a new iteration of Foo, one must iterate all the |
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virtuals that relate to it, and vet their need to be updated, and every |
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single update you do is just something thats easy to get wrong, when it |
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always seems to make so much more sense to say "X provides Y", especially |
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in the case where X provides a very large list of Y ( virtual/perl-* is a |
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maintenance nightmare ) |
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Kent |
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<http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz> |