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On 23/11/2014 22:54, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht |
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>> <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software |
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>>> to work and update installed libraries to match the requirements. |
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>> This sounds nice in principle, but making it work is not trivial. |
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>> Suppose my package works with gcc-1.2.3.4 with a list of 14 specific |
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>> patches and no others, and glibc-1.2.3.4 with another list of 14 |
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>> patches and no others. Now suppose 300 other packages have similar |
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>> requirements. |
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> To make it simple, this is almost irrelevant IMHO. |
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I'll tell you what I'm seeing. |
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I'm seeing a theoretical description of magic software that mathematics |
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predicts can exist. I don't see running software. |
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How about you write running software that does what you describe, then |
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we can talk more, m'kay? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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