Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:28:24 +0000
hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:

> We have:
> * a broken PM which does incomplete dep calculation, gives wrong
> suggestions to the user, has totally useless error/debug output,
> randomly fails to remove files, allows to break your system in
> numerous ways and whatnot... and I'm not going through bugzilla now
> to prove it
> * overcomplex eclasses, because people try to avoid getting stuff into
> the PM, resulting in more confusion for the PM
> * repeatedly broken stable packages
> * people coding against a PM instead of PMS and thus relying on
> undocumented behavior and breaking the "meta-distribution" part of
> gentoo
> * a PM codebase no one wants to be involved in

So you suggest we work around a bug in the PM which would be a single
fix. Everywhere.


    jer