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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:23:27
Message-Id: 20120907162316.6255818b@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:36:05 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > > These are the rules for a machine. People don't actually read
5 > > dependencies sequentially. Provide a good algorithm which works from
6 > > any position.
7 >
8 > Read backwards from the current position until you find a label. It's
9 > the same algorithm you use to find out what the current section is
10 > when you're reading an article.
11
12 No, it doesn't work that way.
13
14 See:
15
16 foo? (
17 label:
18 dev-foo/bar
19 )
20 dev-bar/foo <-
21
22 Reading backwards, I find 'label'.
23
24 > > shall we repeat all the disadvantages which you love to forgot to
25 > > mention?
26 >
27 > No, please stay out of this until you understand the original
28 > proposal, and in particular the parts marked with ***. So long as you
29 > don't understand what we're discussing, I'm afraid any contributions
30 > you make will simply be shouting and waving.
31
32 What have parts marked with '***' to do with the disadvantages we have
33 already proved and which you didn't even bother answering?
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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