Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond...
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:31:37
Message-Id: 1132965054.16217.205.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 00:23 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:00:07 -0500 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:
3 > | > Why introduce a feature which is crippled? It would be almost as
4 > | > easy to allow ebuilds to mess with their 'real' runtime dependency
5 > | > value as appropriate rather than forcing an incorrect
6 > | > auto-generated list onto everyone.
7 > |
8 > | Please go back to trolling on dev We are trying to get work done here
9 > | and solve real problems.
10 >
11
12 > Sure. You're inventing some arbitrary problem which has no reflection
13 > upon reality and then solving some other arbitrary problem which has no
14 > reflection upon either reality or what you say you're solving. End
15 > result is more unnecessary complexity, more unnecessary mess and, once
16 > you realise your solution is inadequate, no doubt yet another
17 > incomplete hack on top of that.
18
19 thanks asshat
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