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On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:03:41 +1300 |
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Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:03:19 +0300 |
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> Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me> wrote: |
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> > Binary distros usually have separate repositories for each |
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> > architecture. |
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> One aspect: They don't have a package database that's a collection of |
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> bash scripts that have to be routinely executed. |
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> And they also don't have USE flags to complicate dependency analysis. |
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> So their user-side interface can handle this "Can't satisfy dependency" |
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> situation much more quickly. ( I have no recollection of apt taking |
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> more than a few seconds to work out what it needs to do, or throwing an |
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> error ) |
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They also split out their packages a lot more than we do. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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