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On Friday 22 October 2004 15:11, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> Why not express the dependency as an RDF graph? A dependency statement |
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> would be a complete uri. This would also remove the need to maintain a |
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> single package namespace. |
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The problem is absolutely not with the namespace. There are 2 ways of |
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namespaces, one is where every party uses it's own namespace, so |
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excluding overlaps, but also taking away the advantages of other people's |
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work. AND this will highly likely lead to overlapping files as there is |
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overlap in the upstream packages. |
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The other way is where the namespaces are looser. In this case one package |
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has one namespace. This however does not work either, because it moves |
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the problem to inside the package, where your package A does not work |
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with my dependant package C, because your package A is different than my |
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package B, while A and B are supposed to be the same package. |
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In short, the only way to guarantee that this doesn't happen is to have a |
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central tree that has a minimum quality level. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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