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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:39:23 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:27:51 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
> Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > All people with enough knowledge already know that this is
> > technically impossible.
>=20
> We already discussed in the bug how it *would* be possible,
> just nobody implements it:
>=20
> Portage would have to use dynamic deps throughout,
> using the data stored in /var/db only to find out
> the correct information for :=3D dependencies.
>=20
> This would fix the behaviour except for some
> corner cases concerning orphaned packages which
> can lead to broken situations with any approach.
Your solution fails spectacularly in the following ways:
* Ebuild removal
* Overlays
* Introduction of :=3D dependencies
* pkg_*rm
Which brings us back to the "all people with enough knowledge
already know that this is technically impossible" thing...
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Ciaran McCreesh
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