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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:02:35PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: |
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> > > We could just set the RDEPEND in the binary packages to be >= the |
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> > > versions installed on the system that compiled the package. |
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> > Nope, this won't work, for the building-against-openssl-0.9.6-but- |
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> > deploying-against-openssl-0.9.7 reasons. |
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> It will if the 0.9.7 binary packages include the 0.9.6 libraries as well. |
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This isn't sensible for two reasons: |
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The GRP isn't specially treated in any way. It's just a bunch of |
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packages that Gentoo happened to build, QA, and distribute. To implement |
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your proposal someone would need to build every version of the package |
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and merge them into a super-package. For something as large and |
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frequently-updated as openssl, this would be prohibitive. (You can't |
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just build every ebuild in the tree, you have to build every ebuild |
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that's ever been in the tree.) |
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The second reason is more philosophical: the reason this problem arises |
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at all is that we don't have a strong mapping between ebuild and |
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package contents, other than version. If we start artificially supplying a |
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mapping, we're weaving this weakness into our tools, which makes it very |
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difficult to upgrade or improve in the future. |
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift |
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