From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:28:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131105212805.41ec79fb@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131105142959.GK22282@server>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:29:59 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
> I can't understand the *need* for the new slot/subslot philosophy.
The need to it is clear. Previous methods worked by breaking things and
then fixing them, hopefully before the breakage became a problem,
whenever library APIs changed. Subslots are an attempt to deal with this
proactively by fixing the problems as they occur.
Whether subslots are the best way to do it, and whether the
implementation is ideal, as separate questions, but there is no doubt
that any system that relies on the existence of revdep-rebuild is
seriously flawed.
To my mind, the question is not "are subslots needed" but "are they the
best solution to this problem".
--
Neil Bothwick
Most software is about as user-friendly as a cornered rat!
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-02 12:04 [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience? hasufell
2013-11-02 12:31 ` Philip Webb
2013-11-02 13:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-03 19:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2013-11-03 19:23 ` hasufell
2013-11-04 7:46 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-03 19:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-05 9:52 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-05 10:04 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-11-05 10:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-05 12:11 ` Marc Joliet
2013-11-05 14:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-05 15:21 ` Bruce Hill
2013-11-05 19:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-06 11:50 ` Marc Joliet
2013-11-06 12:54 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-06 18:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-07 6:26 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-05 18:06 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-05 19:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-06 7:46 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-06 13:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-07 6:16 ` Martin Vaeth
2013-11-02 15:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Campbell
2013-11-02 16:14 ` Dustin C. Hatch
2013-11-02 17:07 ` Daniel Frey
2013-11-02 19:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-11-02 20:33 ` thegeezer
2013-11-02 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-03 0:38 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-11-03 10:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-05 13:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Bruce Hill
2013-11-05 14:29 ` Bruce Hill
2013-11-05 21:28 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-11-05 21:38 ` Bruce Hill
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