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On Tue, 17 May 2022 16:35:11 +0200, |
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Micha³ Górny wrote: |
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> This would require a new EAPI. We don't really want more Portage- |
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> specific hacks that are going to break for everyone not using Portage or |
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> the very specific Portage version. |
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> I'm not saying that it's not doable but I'm not convinced the added |
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> complexity is really worth the effort, especially given that this looks |
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> like a very special corner case. In the end, fixing Melpa is the right |
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> thing to do. |
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> For a start, you'd have to ensure that the "normalizer script" (or its |
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> dependencies, if you put it in the repo) is available at the time of |
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> fetching. This pretty much goes back to the problem of "fetch |
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> dependencies", and requires a major design change in Portage that |
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> reduces separation between fetching and installing that we have now. |
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> I mean, right now Portage pretty much assumes that you can do |
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> a `--fetchonly` with no extra packages necessary. |
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> The "normalizer" wouldn't be trivial either. In the end, we're talking |
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> about getting 100% consistent results on all platforms, over |
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> a reasonably long timeframe. |
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Oh, what a chain of complexity. Yeah, I'll go try fixing melpa first. |
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Markus |
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more |
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intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much---the wheel, New |
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York, wars and so on---while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about |
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in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always |
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believed that they were far more intelligent than man---for precisely the |
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same reasons. (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.) |
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