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On 02/03/2018 12:26 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> W dniu pią, 02.02.2018 o godzinie 18∶23 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico |
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> napisał: |
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>> There's been a lot of pushback involving the --dynamic-deps=n default. |
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> Most of it pushed by a single rogue developer. |
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>> What we really need is a tool to apply dependency changes in-place, |
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>> without the need for a rebuild. |
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> So what is the plan for the 'tool'? Who is working on it? How will it |
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> magically work? |
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The same way as --dynamic-deps=y, but persistently. |
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>> Reverts: 2905e1c2c28d ("Disable dynamic-deps by default") |
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>> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/646458 |
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> This is a horrible idea, and I find it outrageous that you submit it for |
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> review in the middle of the night an then merge yourself 40 minutes |
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> later, and make into a release. |
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After two weeks of listing to people complain about useless rebuilds, I |
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couldn't take it anymore. |
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> The main result we're going to see now is a lot of users hit with |
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> a lot of confusing messages. Yes, you've already made this a mess with |
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> that --changed-deps-report but this is only getting worse. Now nobody |
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> will be able to figure out what way things are supposed to work, |
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> and if they're forced to rebuild everything. |
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Those who are willing to accept the extra rebuilds will do them, and the |
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others will use --dynamic-deps=y until something better comes along. |
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> I'm pretty sure some developers will use this as an excuse to stop |
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> revbumping stuff, and in a few days we're be back at square one. |
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Maybe the QA team can do the revbumps? If devs get enough bug mail |
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involving QA revbumps, maybe they'll eventually cooperate? |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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