From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-05-14
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 16:35:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130501163556.6ab95917@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130501172802.0f9ef9ec@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:28:02 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013 16:22:47 +0100
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:18:50 -0700
> > Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > I know that this feature has been questioned by some, especially
> > > by people involved with Paludis (which doesn't implement
> > > preserve-libs). I think that the main compliant is that
> > > preserve-libs doesn't preserve any non-library dependencies (such
> > > as configuration files) that a library may depend on.
> >
> > ...and that it's utterly frickin' broken as a concept, and that
> > adopting it will slow down people switching to the proper solution
> > to the problem, which is slots.
>
> Convince the developers to split packages into proper parts, then we
> can talk. Or even better, convince upstreams to split their packages.
It's necessary, and the way to convince developers is to stop providing
a nasty hack as a not-really-working alternative.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-27 16:59 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-05-14 Petteri Räty
2013-04-27 21:27 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-01 7:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-01 15:15 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-05-01 15:18 ` Zac Medico
2013-05-01 15:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-01 15:28 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-01 15:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2013-05-01 17:27 ` Zac Medico
2013-05-01 17:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-01 17:35 ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-01 17:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-01 16:35 ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-01 15:39 ` Michał Górny
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