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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:57:32 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" |
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<kevquinn@g.o> wrote: |
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| Things that package moves cause: |
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| 1) Dependencies throughout the tree have to be updated |
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And? This isn't a breakage. |
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| 2) Current installations become inconsistent with respect to the tree |
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Uh, current installations become 'inconsistent' whenever anyone changes |
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*anything* in the tree. |
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| 3) Binary packages go out-of-date |
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So rebuild them. Binary packages go out of date whenever someone does a |
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version bump too. |
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| 4) Increased sync load |
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Not really significant in comparison to, say, an arch team keywording a |
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new KDE or Gnome stable. |
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| 5) Loss of history, unless the move is performed server-side (i.e. |
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| extra work for infra) |
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History's in the ChangeLog. |
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| The key issue is that categories are semantically inadequate. |
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That's no reason to use them improperly. |
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So again, you've *not* given any reasons to avoid sensible package |
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moves. This happens every time the topic comes up, and then when taken |
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up on it, certain people quickly resort to accusations of trolling |
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rather than providing any genuine evidence that the drawbacks outweigh |
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the benefits... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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