From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SchCX-00054W-BB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:12:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7DAEE06EC; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7304BE06CC for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaae12 with SMTP id e12so382927eaa.40 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:11:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=RzpFxxxw/8VDTqa0hB6yN7fleAwJLC1pfjYrpvyyYG4=; b=aG9g72intmBvov6e4Ibi8eEhS38VJ4VhDMdybgH2DocyX8JdIT9hlbQM/+N9yrHwGX c3sfzjQZV7IXUZDXqEYGOwZYtUJhqq5sVjmCXvgyQ0ngOEZuvV7TSJAYj2ExfBUYm+h9 Fc5cItRIim3CpnDAkakOuQUbkymWTnIvb61MimMBonPGEndKUv/IxSJpTX1p551GJ4bI fJFYLAtXjbPtbjFWpFcehIsLK451+OWnKRaIYsaks8Fcmk0f5bHH8Cr2vSGSV9sr1guj cEH1uzLdvn/mZHAQpt0Johg1Mhf3k64CzBRVemGqkDwC1+27kcQNCpHtOZ2s4VqyNRDD 0azw== Received: by 10.14.127.6 with SMTP id c6mr1818518eei.164.1339092703557; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id db7sm2417957wib.6.2012.06.07.11.11.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:08:22 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue Message-ID: <20120607190822.033e8452@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD0ECED.10201@gentoo.org> References: <4FCF2012.3040500@gentoo.org> <1338976106.2706.36.camel@belkin4> <20120606181650.0c727f18@googlemail.com> <1339005744.2706.47.camel@belkin4> <20120606191505.4e011158@googlemail.com> <1339007452.2706.57.camel@belkin4> <20120606193348.67b83427@googlemail.com> <1339010165.2706.62.camel@belkin4> <20120606202340.6c95711f@googlemail.com> <4FCFF945.1070804@gentoo.org> <20120607082409.GB3352@localhost.google.com> <4FD0DA34.8080409@gentoo.org> <20120607184008.09aca0fe@googlemail.com> <4FD0ECED.10201@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/x0w8InIYZmof9rbRXBTzd7C"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 8dc5e0e7-61ff-4119-9b98-a4a966e767df X-Archives-Hash: b0aaca9143e42a9ce32b1d06e8202d48 --Sig_/x0w8InIYZmof9rbRXBTzd7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:03:25 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > > You're missing out on a brilliant opportunity to encourage > > developers put in a bit more work to save users a huge amount of > > pain here. >=20 > What about cases like the dbus-glib and glib:2 dependency, where it's > just too much trouble to use SLOT operator deps? Wouldn't it be better > to have a little flexibility, so that we can accommodate more > packages? Then if it really is "too much trouble", which is another way of saying "it's a thousand times more work for a developer to get it right than it is for a user to deal with it", you can use blockers. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/x0w8InIYZmof9rbRXBTzd7C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/Q7hoACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEg3wCgt9rh8gDEioPGyvVQk2GQczGr xSQAn3lLi6bWR7yIvOBfmCMu0VKPFmhJ =tm3a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/x0w8InIYZmof9rbRXBTzd7C--