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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:55:11
Message-Id: 20140726155454.7f7ad9f4@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Martin Vaeth
1 On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:46:42 +0000 (UTC)
2 Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
3 > Yes, both concepts have problems.
4
5 The problems are of a different kind. Static dependencies don't do
6 something that you want them to do. Dynamic dependencies are outright
7 broken.
8
9 > Since neither solution is perfect, why choose the one
10 > with unnecessary rebuilds?
11
12 We are picking the *correct* solution, not the one that sometimes hides
13 an occasional inconvenience (but unreliably) at the expense of being
14 utterly broken.
15
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17 Ciaran McCreesh

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