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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:56:17 +0200 |
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> ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It seems really tricky to correctly reason about dependency |
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>> resolution. |
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> It's actually very easy if you do away with all the things that are |
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> making it unnecessarily complicated... Nearly all of the complexity is |
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> self-inflicted. |
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What would you do away with? Being able to virtualize packages |
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without recompiling everything that depends on them? |
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I do appreciate your argument, but at the same time for every complex |
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problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. |
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There are a lot of things in Gentoo that could be done in a simpler |
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fashion, and 10 years ago Gentoo was a lot simpler than it is today. |
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The thing is, all that complexity was added for a reason. I'm all for |
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refactoring, but we need to be careful to not toss the baby with the |
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bathwater if it is at all possible. |
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It might be an interesting exercise if we could take something like |
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kde-meta+firefox+openoffice on the desktop/kde profile (or gnome if |
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you wish) and determine just how many rebuilds would have resulted in |
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the last six months if all the changes we're talking about actually |
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involved revbumps, and how much cpu time that would take on an |
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"average" system (I don't care what but distinguishing |
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firefox/openoffice/qt/kdelibs from some package with 1k lines of code |
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is useful). |
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