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On Sat, 31 May 2008 07:38:12 +0530 |
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"Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1) You say the benefits haven't been pointed out, while several posts |
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> have already done so. You seem to be the only one pretending to be |
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> unaware of them. |
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No no no. The benefits described would be obtained by fixing libtool. |
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What you get from as-needed is a half-arsed sometimes-working subset of |
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those benefits. as-needed is not the fix for the libtool problems. |
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> 2) The "expense of breaking things" is completely unqualified in your |
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> post. Here's some context: "expense" is minimal since the problem is |
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> easily fixable, and "breaking things" is the list of bugs on the |
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> tracker bug -- 19 with most of them already having patches that just |
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> need to be committed |
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And all of which are utterly pointless. |
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> 3) You say fixing libtool is the correct solution but you don't say |
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> why or explain how. You don't give any information at all, and due to |
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> the non-existant evidence, I am going to take the statement with a |
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> fist of salt. |
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I'm assuming everyone contributing to this thread knows exactly what the |
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libtool problems are... But from the looks of things, plenty of people |
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are quite happy to jump in and yell when they don't have the slightest |
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clue what the root problem is, what as-needed changes, what as-needed |
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breaks or how as-needed is unrelated to the problem. And unfortunately, |
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it looks like those people are the ones that're going to be making the |
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decisions. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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