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Zac Medico posted on Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:21:48 -0800 as excerpted: |
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> On 01/28/2018 09:49 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>> 3) Show a NOTE telling users about --changed-deps=y |
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>> This is in the HINT section, which is displayed if both --changed-deps |
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>> and --dynamic-deps are disabled in PATCH v2. |
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> Actually, the whole report should be suppressed if either --changed-deps |
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> or --dynamic-deps is enabled, so I'll send PATCH v4 for that. |
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This is shaping up quite nicely and by (1) dramatically shortening the |
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original "wall of text" report and (2) aborting the report if no affected |
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packages are in the graph, it's vastly improved from the original. |
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I definitely expect it to be rather helpful here, since I have both |
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--dynamic-deps and --changed-deps off by default, and seeing that list |
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could be /quite/ helpful. Looking forward to it! =:^) |
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My remaining concern, and I'm not sure there's a solution, is that for |
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routine 30-day-plus updaters, the warning could quickly become "routine |
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noise", due to valid no-r-bump exceptions such as the llvm example mgorny |
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provided, which very well /could/ happen often enough to trigger the |
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warning nearly every time for 30-day-plus updaters. Then when it really |
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counts and could help, people will likely be ignoring it. |
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Maybe someone else has an idea, but as I said it's already vastly |
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improved from the original, and I believe usable as-is, now, while I'd |
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have found the original quite irritating by about the third time I saw |
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it, even if also helpful. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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