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On pon, 2017-07-10 at 17:40 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> Stop getting lost in the weeds!!!! |
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> You all are making this about -c vs -C. I am not talking about that! |
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> LET ME CLARIFY.... |
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> When using -C, portage SHOULD warn for dependencies like it does for |
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> profile and set packages, PERIOD. NOTHING to do with -c vs -C. |
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> When using -c the output should say in layman's terms, |
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> "Not removing package A because it is a dependency" |
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> Again nothing to do with -c vs -C. So PLEASE stop with that! |
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> Two things very straightforward and simple. No clue why others keep |
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> making this about a use -c vs -C. That does NOT change the lack of |
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> warnings or information I am speaking about for BOTH! |
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> Amazing how things can be off tracked and miss the entire point. I do |
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> not care if you use -c or -C. BOTH lack the same warnings and |
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> information. That is what I am talking about. |
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William, I'm not sure if you're aware of how package managers work but |
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checking reverse dependencies of a package takes significant amount of |
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time. Changing -C to do that would be a serious performance regression. |
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Which would result in users requesting yet another option to disable |
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this. |
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I should also point out that these are Portage implementation specifics |
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that do not belong on this mailing list. The issues with Portage are |
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reported on bugs.gentoo.org, in the 'Portage Development' product. If |
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you have any problems with using Portage, please use the gentoo-user |
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mailing list or any other user-oriented media. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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