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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:34:29 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:08:43 +0100 |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:06:06 +0200 |
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> > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > But didn't we already point out that we can't have them in RDEPEND |
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> > > since they introduce conflicts? |
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> > |
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> > You are missing a basic and important part of how dependency |
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> > resolution works: currently, cycles consisting purely of RDEPENDs |
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> > are ignorable. |
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> |
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> So, what do we lose? If PDEP comes 'ASAP' officially, I believe that |
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> we actually gain RDEPs which can be actually trusted. |
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"ASAP" is a weaker guarantee that RDEPENDs currently have -- RDEPENDs |
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currently have the weakest guarantee necessary to ensure that they can |
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be trusted. It's also a useless guarantee, since "ASAP" can be |
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arbitrarily late. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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