* Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-05-14
@ 2013-05-01 15:35 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2013-05-01 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Michał Górny; +Cc: gentoo-project
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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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