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On 07-09-2012 12:03:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 09/07/2012 11:17 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > I guess real-life examples, more extensively described than you did |
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> > before, with exactly where it goes wrong, and how the situation is |
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> > improved would help. |
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> Perhaps some of the greatest frustrations for Gentoo users stem from the |
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> lack of support for automatic rebuild of packages when necessary. |
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> Imagine how nice it would be if necessary rebuilds would automatically |
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> occur when appropriate, so that you wouldn't experience build failures |
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> that require you to manually intervene by running revdep-rebuild, |
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> perl-cleaner, or something like that. And there are other kinds of |
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> necessary rebuilds that don't trigger build failures, but lead to |
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> runtime failures that are noticed much later (like xorg driver failures |
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> after a major xorg-server update). Sub-slots can be used to solve the |
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> bulk of problems like these that our users have had to deal with manually. |
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I like that! Kudos for making it work! |
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I just wonder what the heck that has to do with SLOT. |
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This discussion has been done before in this thread, and it somehow |
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settled. |
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> ... sub-slots are a relatively simple extension to slot-operator deps, |
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> and they are poised to greatly improve user experience (via automatic |
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> rebuilds) if they are included in EAPI 5. |
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And we want it. But is it a good idea to add some feature that feels |
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like just a hack? |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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