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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:26:32 -0500 Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> |
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| Well I bought this bug-spray and it only kills 99% of the bugs in my |
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| home, so I guess I should scrap it and work on something better that |
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| kills 100% of bugs? |
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Pff, bad analogy. Better to say "should I spend time installing this |
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device which kills greenfly, or should I spend slightly more time |
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installing a similar device which kills off all kinds of nasty bugs?". |
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| If this helps stem system breakage by repairing a number of broken |
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| library deps, how is that bad? Because it doesn't adhere to Ciaran's |
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| ideal feature standards? |
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Because it's a significant amount of wasted work. Solving the problem |
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properly isn't much harder, however, and it will avoid having to keep |
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around the proposed broken implementation in the future for |
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compatibility with legacy apps. |
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| > | So in regards to reverse dependency tracking, do you have a |
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| > | solution/advice or just useless criticism? Please attempt to be |
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| > | constructive here. |
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| > Sure. My advice is to scrap the current idea and redo it to take |
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| > into account things which are not just ELF-related. |
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| Bricklayers build walls, one brick at a time. |
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And if you're continuing the bad analogies, then bricklayers put down |
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bricks where they are needed, and do not randomly chuck bricks into |
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place in arbitrary locations because they happen to have a brick handy. |
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Also, building a wall out of pebbles and sand isn't a very good idea... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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