Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:16:04
Message-Id: 20130616231549.726ebb99@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs by Zac Medico
1 On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:57:32 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > It's actually not bad, since all of the subslot rebuilds are triggered
4 > in a single backtracking run. Anyway, I welcome having people work on
5 > competing package managers, trying to do all of this stuff more
6 > efficiently. :-)
7
8 I'm starting to think we're all doing this wrong by going for a naive
9 "single choice then backtrack" model, fully consistent or otherwise.
10 Perhaps we're going to have to bite the bullet and go for stronger
11 propagation models and one of the many better alternatives to
12 backtracking...
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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