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On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:52:24 +0200 |
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Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > bring this to the point where we can say something other than |
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> > "huh?". |
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> You can accelerate by making one guess about each thing on the list |
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> and asking for confirmation of your guess. |
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> It sounds silly, but I realized that this actually happens all the |
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> time offline - at least to me. I interpret, ask if I got it right, |
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> then move on. It's pretty efficient, but requires both sender and |
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> receiver wanting successful transmission. |
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The issue is not that we don't understand the list. The issue is that |
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we don't understand the problem (beyond superficially), how the |
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proposed solution works from an ebuild perspective, whether the |
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solution solves the problem, or how it all fits together. Most of the |
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stuff on the list is irrelevant from a design perspective. It's not |
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that the list is hard to understand, it's that understanding the |
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problem and solution requires completely different material. |
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To take one example, figuring out exactly which variables get mangled |
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is an unimportant detail at this stage (and likely we'll want to |
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offload it to profiles, not hard-code it in PMS) and not a central part |
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of the proposal. |
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What we need is a GLEP, describing it in high level terms with a |
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discussion upon how it impacts users and ebuild developers, and a PMS |
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patch, highlighting what's to be changed in specific technical terms. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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