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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage dependency solving algorithm
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 12:34:15
Message-Id: 20141109123403.52e1514d@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage dependency solving algorithm by Matthias Dahl
1 On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:01:54 +0100
2 Matthias Dahl <ml_gentoo-lists@×××××××××××××.eu> wrote:
3 > Sorry to chime in like that but if you don't mind, I'd like to ask
4 > for a real-life example for badly declared dependencies with a few
5 > words why those are bad and how to make them actually better?
6
7 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421497
8
9 For example. The key message is that developers aren't "writing what
10 they mean", they're writing "something that appears to work with
11 Portage if you don't look very hard".
12
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14 Ciaran McCreesh

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