[gentoo-portage-dev] [Fwd: Re: GLEP: Making updates never break dependencies]

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>

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>  I just wrote a GLEP, proposing a solution to the problem that updating
>  f.ex. openssl, requires recompiling almost world
>  (kde,mozilla,galeon,wget,irrsi,python etc.) - and breaks your system if
>  you don't complete all this, while you are running (since the old
>  openssl files are removed after the openssl upgrade -and programs that
>  haven't been recompiled will break).

Dear Mr. Klavsen,
  Thank you very much for submitting this GLEP. I think it may need a
bit of work before we can accept it, however. A minor point is that we
request that GLEPs be written in a formal manner (no abbreviations such
as "f.ex", spelling should be checked, sentences should be complete,
subject and predicate should agree in number, etcetera). The more
substantive comment is that this GLEP raises a number of issues that I
think the GLEP itself should address: who will be making the required
portage changes, how would these changes impact developers, how
extensive would those changes be, how would these changes impact
performance, are there other alternative solutions to this problem that
should be considered, would the introduction of "reverse-dependencies"
solve this problem?  I've CC'd carpaski, the Gentoo Portage lead, in
case he might have additional comments.

Sincerely,
Grant Goodyear
GLEP Editor
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Grant Goodyear <glep@gentoo.org>

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