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On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:51:51 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Without a list of future features, you think the best way to go must |
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> | be the least agile? As Zac said, all that matters to keep full |
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> | compatibility on the side of the readers is to add a level of |
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> | indirection. All your reasoning above falls apart in the face of that |
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> | simple *logical* request. |
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> Every problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection, |
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> except for the problem of having too many layers of indirection. This |
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> layer you are proposing is not going to do anything useful. It's merely |
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> adding indirection for the sake of it. There's no more need for this |
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> than there is need for a two thousand line XML DTD which allows us to |
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> specify the author's date of birth using an ancient Sumerian calendar. |
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> Come up with a full specification of how Portage will handle multiple |
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> repositories, and get that specification agreed upon by the people who |
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> will end up having to use it. *Then* come back and ask me to add in |
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> more complexity. I'm not going to over-complicate things to deal with |
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> random hypothetical half-baked speculation. |
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So what are you going to do? I asked already but you didn't answer. |
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How are you going to find $PORTDIR/metadata/news? |
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