Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond...
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:24:24
Message-Id: 20051126002342.765f60e8@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... by Ned Ludd
1 On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:00:07 -0500 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:
2 | > Why introduce a feature which is crippled? It would be almost as
3 | > easy to allow ebuilds to mess with their 'real' runtime dependency
4 | > value as appropriate rather than forcing an incorrect
5 | > auto-generated list onto everyone.
6 |
7 | Please go back to trolling on dev We are trying to get work done here
8 | and solve real problems.
9
10 Sure. You're inventing some arbitrary problem which has no reflection
11 upon reality and then solving some other arbitrary problem which has no
12 reflection upon either reality or what you say you're solving. End
13 result is more unnecessary complexity, more unnecessary mess and, once
14 you realise your solution is inadequate, no doubt yet another
15 incomplete hack on top of that.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler)
19 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
20 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>