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Ciaran McCreesh: |
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> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:58 +0000 |
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> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> That's not really helpful advice: dynamic dependencies can't be |
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>>> fixed. Instead, you should say that anyone who thinks they have an |
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>>> idea on how to fix dynamic deps should think about it until they |
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>>> understand why it's wrong... |
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>> I was rather talking about the "fix useless rebuilds" issue. It's a |
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>> valid point. |
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> It's like saying "OK, the house is on fire, but I really like the |
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> wallpaper, so we should just stay in the building"... |
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>> What would you suggest? Can the VDB be fixed in another way to avoid |
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>> such rebuilds? |
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> There are ways of doing it, if you're prepared to make ebuild authors |
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> put in an awful lot of work for very little gain. But it shouldn't be a |
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> priority, and we need to fix existing breakages before doing something |
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> ambitious like that. |
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I agree. After all, we have *-bin packages for stuff like libreoffice, |
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pypy, firefox etc anyway if rebuilding is really a problem for someone. |
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That said, it might maybe even make more sense to provide an official |
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binhost, although that is probably not less ambitious as fixing VDB on |
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the fly. |
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Sounds like that would be an interesting gentoo project. But afais PMS |
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doesn't really specify how binary packages should look like, so we will |
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hit incompatibility problems there as well. |
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