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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond...
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:27:11
Message-Id: 4387B9C8.1070107@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:42:14 -0500 Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
6 > wrote:
7 > | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
8 > | > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:00:07 -0500 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
9 > | > wrote:
10 > | > | > Why introduce a feature which is crippled? It would be almost as
11 > | > | > easy to allow ebuilds to mess with their 'real' runtime
12 > | > | > dependency value as appropriate rather than forcing an incorrect
13 > | > | > auto-generated list onto everyone.
14 > |
15 > | Talking on solar about this confirmed my suspicions, the ELF data
16 > | can't be wrong, otherwise things won't link properly. Thus if we were
17 > | just to use ELF NEEDED entries, how could the list of reverse runtime
18 > | deps be "incorrect" as you imply above?
19 >
20 > It can be incomplete.
21 >
22 > Of course, finding the ELF NEEDED entries is not a sufficient solution
23 > to the initial problem, nor is it a sufficient solution to the real
24 > problem here.
25 >
26 Well I bought this bug-spray and it only kills 99% of the bugs in my
27 home, so I guess I should scrap it and work on something better that
28 kills 100% of bugs?
29
30 If this helps stem system breakage by repairing a number of broken
31 library deps, how is that bad? Because it doesn't adhere to Ciaran's
32 ideal feature standards?
33
34 > | So in regards to reverse dependency tracking, do you have a
35 > | solution/advice or just useless criticism? Please attempt to be
36 > | constructive here.
37 >
38 > Sure. My advice is to scrap the current idea and redo it to take into
39 > account things which are not just ELF-related.
40 >
41 Bricklayers build walls, one brick at a time.
42
43 - -Alec Warner (antarus)
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>