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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND | ||
| Date: | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:43:35 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20110811083832.59b6646d@googlemail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND by Zac Medico |
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| 1 | On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:37:18 -0700 |
| 2 | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > It's fair enough for you to call them "broken" dependencies. However, |
| 4 | > when writing "broken" dependencies it what comes natural to ebuild |
| 5 | > developers, is it practical to fight them even though you can write |
| 6 | > your dependency resolver to cope with it? |
| 7 | |
| 8 | You can't write a dependency resolver to cope with it. You can write a |
| 9 | dependency resolver that hides the problem some of the time. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | -- |
| 12 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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