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On 11/07/2014 08:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> The main issue, though, is that getting a "good" resolution out of |
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> crappy data is extremely difficult. There's the Babbage quote: |
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> | On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put |
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> | into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In |
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> | one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the |
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> | Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend |
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> | the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. |
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> Yet this is *exactly* what a dependency resolver has to do for Gentoo, |
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> and it's why dependency resolvers are so complicated. |
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> (For comparison, Paludis on Exherbo will run an order of magnitude |
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> faster for the same set of installed packages, simply because on |
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> Exherbo the input is correct.) |
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What;s wrong with input? PMS itself or how do maintainers write ebuilds? |
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Could you explain? |
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