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* Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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Hi folks, |
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> Imo, the cyclic dep problem could be solved as thus, |
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> A depends B |
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> B depends C||A |
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> Where C is a minimalist subset of A required for building B, |
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> which is only depended on if A is not present. |
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> A is also a replacement for C. |
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Beware of conflicts ! |
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AFAIK portage cannot handle them by itself, instead aborts and |
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leaves the job to the user. |
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> So the flow would go like such. |
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> Emerge A: |
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> * depends on b |
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> * A is missing, so depend on C |
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> *emerges C* |
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> *emerges B* |
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> *removes C* <-- otherwise A & C containing the same files = headache |
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> *emerges A* |
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Who exactly controls this flow ? |
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portage or the user ? |
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> Computers exist to make our life easier, not the other way around :) |
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ACK. An "ideal" system would be able to do it all alone, the user |
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just tells what he wants. Of course ideal != realistic, but IMHO |
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its good to go into the ideal direction as far as possible. |
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BTW: some people expressed (within this thread), that Gentoo was too |
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easy to use and should be made more complicated. Funny, isn't it ? |
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Ah, just in case that 99% of the people didn't actually read my |
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postings, I'll just say it again: |
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The circular dependencies between Xserver and drivers do not come |
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from upstream. They're artificial. If we just want an simple-to-use |
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package which gets the Xserver *and* drivers based on useflags |
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(which IMHO is an good idea), it's quite trivial to do this by an |
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virtual/meta package. I've did it and it works good. You can get |
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it from my overlay via CVS: |
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CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@××××××××××××.de:/repositories/cvs/oss-qm |
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password: annymous |
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module: oss-qm-overlay |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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