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On Thursday 10 January 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:37 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. |
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> > Almost all circular dependency issues we currently have are due to |
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> > implicit dependencies. |
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> Maybe OT (an idea in a very early state): |
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> For the implicit dependencies one could think of path-sandbox to help: |
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> Inform libsandbox which files are provided by packages both in *DEPEND |
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> and the system package set, and let it completely deny access to |
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> not-listed files. |
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> Or let it report any access to not-listed files to help finding the |
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> implicit dependencies. |
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it'd be quite some time before this would see implementation, but can you |
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summarize the ideas and open a feature request in bugzilla please |
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-mike |
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