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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> am I the only one who thinks that this way leads to madness? |
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> Version conflicts are bad enough. |
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First, version conflicts have their roots in the support for versions of |
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libraries in softwares. This is the best place to fix that when |
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possible. |
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When it comes to ebuilds maintainers, version conflicts are about all |
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about DECLARATIONS. If software A need Y-v1..12, we should have a way |
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for the maintainers to declare that A relies on Y-v1..12 and let the |
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dependency softwares to the hard job and admin/users handle them the way |
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they want. |
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Today, this is badly managed with implicit expectations everywhere. |
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Also, there are ways to overcome version conflicts. Slots are one of |
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them. |
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> No multiply that with a bunch of |
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> overlays, all having their own libXY with just some tiny, tiny |
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> differences, and another bunch of overlays who want libXY from certain |
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> others.... |
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That's a reason why I said that overlays are a poor kind of pointers. |
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For overlay maintainers today, if the main portage tree does not offer |
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what they expect, the only option they have is to rewrite their own |
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"static" dependency tree with their own ebuilds. That sucks. |
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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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Nicolas Sebrecht |
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