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On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 21:38 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:09:33 -0500 Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@g.o> |
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> | I've performed stage1 and stage3 installs on both x86 and ppc hardware |
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> | and have never encountered a circular dependency problem. |
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> | Theoretically, such problems should never arise because of the great |
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> | work performed by the RelEng QA people. |
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> No no no. Releng don't control the main tree. |
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ciaranm is completely correct here... releng has no control over the |
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tree. The only thing that we maintain is our own tools, and a few |
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packages which belong to the LiveCD herd. While we do quite a bit of |
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testing to ensure things work smoothly, we have to file bugs and poke |
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other developers to get things fixed, just like anybody else would. |
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> FWIW, there's at least one combination of USE flags that'll give you a |
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> circularly broken bootstrap currently. |
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This is also true. This is the one case rac was referring to when he |
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commented about circular dependency problems. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |