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On 09/06/14 14:15, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:10:50 -0400 |
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> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It is incorrect to say "I'm going about it all wrong" when I'm not |
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>> doing any designing. |
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> Not doing any designing *is* going about it all wrong... Getting this |
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> right is hard work. Someone needs to do it. |
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I plan to help the portage team with this. In fact, I really like |
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mgorny's query-installed|| thingy. I am in the process of familiarizing |
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myself with paludis and can help there too. Brace yourself for patches! |
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>> At this point I've gotten enough feedback for the next re-write. |
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>> Basically I'm going to change the emphasis on ELF and make it clearer |
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>> that we're looking for whatever dynamic linking information is |
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>> appropriate for the executable format in question and relegate ELF to |
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>> an example. |
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> That's all very well, but it's completely useless until someone designs |
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> the whole thing. We're back to specifying the colours of the shelves |
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> before we've designed the bikeshed. |
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This is the beginings of design. We can talk about something which does |
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not exist and then make it exist. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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