Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:36:31 +0800
Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 July 2014 01:06:15 Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:10:20 +0300
> >
> > Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
> > > On 22/07/14 04:05, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
> > > > And just for fun, since no one has mentioned it yet, dynamic
> > > > deps don't work at all on binpkgs since the Packages file
> > > > contains the deps (like vardb) and it doesn't get updated (just
> > > > like vardb).
> > >
> > > Known long standing pitfall. It's managable.
> >
> > It is one of the reasons I see binpkgs as breaking progress instead
> > of being part of the progress; it is manageable, but it could be
> > better.
>
> So you'd rather have people not using Gentoo because you can't
> agilely pivot your strategy mixin?

No, that's not what I've said; the paragraph you quote is based on an
observation, not a statement. In that observation; if people want a
mixin, they would go for a full mixin and not for a half broken mixin.

> Without binpkg support I'd feel the need to hack it up, just to get
> things fast enough. It's one of the features that haven't been made
> popular enough (eh, we could easily provide binpkg-updates for
> @system for all profiles and the most common arches (amd64, x86,
> maybe arm) - I've been running a cronjob doing that for x86+amd64 for
> about a year now)
>
> This perspective of "I don't need it, thus it shouldn't exist" is
> quite ... amusing.

+1; "It doesn't work, it shouldn't exist" is less amusing, more ideal
it should be "it doesn't work, let's fix or replace it" if we can...

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Gentoo Developer

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