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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dynamic deps, wtf are they exactly
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:41:42
Message-Id: mugano$cbj$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: dynamic deps, wtf are they exactly by James
1 James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >[cr
3 > DAG's
4
5 All this can work only if you reflect the complete history
6 in the DAG. Such approaches had been discussed and eliminated
7 as unrealistic: You do not want to keep the history forever;
8 the data will always grow and eventually be too much.
9 Moreover, there can be overlays which might be added,
10 perhaps eventually are abondened, replaced by other
11 overlays, etc. It is not realistic to expect a complete
12 history from them since you installed once from them.
13
14 One must face the fact that at one stage you have the tree you
15 installed and at another stage you have the current tree with
16 possibly dramatic changes and no complete history of all changes.
17
18 In the lack of such a history, simply there is information
19 missing to decide the correct proceeding.
20
21 You have to choose your poison which is either to take
22 the old tree or the new tree as a basis (and to fill the
23 gaps from the other tree).
24
25 > Exactly. The current tools are insufficient
26
27 The available information is *in principle* insufficient.