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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Alexander V Vershilov |
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<alexander.vershilov@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The main point that haskell ecosystem is very breaky and only latest |
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> version is supported, so |
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> the safest path is to be on a bleeding edge and patch inconsistent |
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> applications. So if one |
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> package gets updated then commonly we need to fix its reversed deps, |
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> if it were in tree than |
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> we would be involved into stabilization process and in the end will |
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> delay updating deps, and |
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> the difficulty of tracking all version variant will be much higher |
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> than no, at the end the quality |
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> of the packages in tree will fall. Really we can _guarantee_ that |
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> everything work in overlay |
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> but there is either no technical or bureaucracy reasons that prevent |
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> from fixing as soon as |
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> possible. |
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Still seems like working in gentoo-x86 without doing stabilization |
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would cover most of those bases. Working in the unstable main tree is |
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still a lot better than keeping stuff out there in an overlay, IMO. |
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Cheers, |
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Dirkjan |
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