From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElzgM-0002tO-R5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:14:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBD2DcjN021471; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:13:38 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBD2BiBC018235 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:11:44 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1Elzdn-0005sP-SA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:11:44 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Elzdl-0007IL-Mk for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:11:41 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:11:38 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Message-ID: <20051213021138.31f0df1c@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200512131051.51122.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512122349.31910.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051212171640.7f041a18@snowdrop.home> <200512131051.51122.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_NKhd8lkFK9H8aN9CHleuSRw; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 61750723-528c-46ec-b0f0-60ce9ab43553 X-Archives-Hash: 83965c0ca439937f84ada65bdd0097dc --Sig_NKhd8lkFK9H8aN9CHleuSRw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:51:51 +0900 Jason Stubbs wrote: | Without a list of future features, you think the best way to go must | be the least agile? As Zac said, all that matters to keep full | compatibility on the side of the readers is to add a level of | indirection. All your reasoning above falls apart in the face of that | simple *logical* request. Every problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection, except for the problem of having too many layers of indirection. This layer you are proposing is not going to do anything useful. It's merely adding indirection for the sake of it. There's no more need for this than there is need for a two thousand line XML DTD which allows us to specify the author's date of birth using an ancient Sumerian calendar. Come up with a full specification of how Portage will handle multiple repositories, and get that specification agreed upon by the people who will end up having to use it. *Then* come back and ask me to add in more complexity. I'm not going to over-complicate things to deal with random hypothetical half-baked speculation. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_NKhd8lkFK9H8aN9CHleuSRw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDni3d96zL6DUtXhERAsxDAKC4MPL6V88i3m5NoNHkzHJ/n2eDawCgzXnT piLq+hoCHQIap1J7tKghaYo= =GvaZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_NKhd8lkFK9H8aN9CHleuSRw-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list