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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:43:03
Message-Id: 1199979761.26648.20.camel@sapc154
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:37 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. Almost all circular
3 > dependency issues we currently have are due to implicit dependencies.
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5 Maybe OT (an idea in a very early state):
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7 For the implicit dependencies one could think of path-sandbox to help:
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9 Inform libsandbox which files are provided by packages both in *DEPEND
10 and the system package set, and let it completely deny access to
11 not-listed files.
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13 Or let it report any access to not-listed files to help finding the
14 implicit dependencies.
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16 Thoughts?
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18 /haubi/
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20 Michael Haubenwallner
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