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From: Daniel Campbell <contact@××××××××.us>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:59:54
Message-Id: 54BD7043.2040703@sporkbox.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about by "Róbert Čerňanský"
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4 On 01/19/2015 12:44 PM, Róbert Čerňanský wrote:
5 > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:33:45 +0300 Andrew Savchenko
6 > <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
7 >
8 >> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:45:51 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
9 >>> The problem isn't the constants, though. The problem is the
10 >>> resolution algorithm. There's not much point tweaking
11 >>> performance until the resolver is fixed to produce a correct
12 >>> answer...
13 >>
14 >> Oh, this was discussed so many times already... There is NO
15 >> single correct solution to such problems. And some mathematically
16 >> correct solutions are impractical (e.g. half of the tree
17 >> rebuild), so other ones which are good enough are preferred. As
18 >> long as imperfect solution works fine, I'm ok with it.
19 >
20 > From my point of view it would do much help if portage resolves
21 > USE dependencies automatically instead of telling the user to
22 > change USE flags manually (I am talking about bug #258371).
23 >
24 > Robert
25 >
26 >
27
28 As a user, the last thing I want happening is Portage making USE
29 decisions for me. I'm completely in support of an emerge *flag*, but
30 not doing it unconditionally.
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