From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:14:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54724E50.4060402@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141123205411.GE2139@vidovic.ultras.lan>
On 23/11/2014 22:54, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht
>> <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> wrote:
>>> Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software
>>> to work and update installed libraries to match the requirements.
>>
>> This sounds nice in principle, but making it work is not trivial.
>>
>> Suppose my package works with gcc-1.2.3.4 with a list of 14 specific
>> patches and no others, and glibc-1.2.3.4 with another list of 14
>> patches and no others. Now suppose 300 other packages have similar
>> requirements.
>
> To make it simple, this is almost irrelevant IMHO.
I'll tell you what I'm seeing.
I'm seeing a theoretical description of magic software that mathematics
predicts can exist. I don't see running software.
How about you write running software that does what you describe, then
we can talk more, m'kay?
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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2014-11-22 18:12 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ? wireless
2014-11-22 17:56 ` Rich Freeman
2014-12-26 2:13 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-11-22 18:54 ` hasufell
2014-11-22 22:20 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-22 22:44 ` hasufell
2014-11-22 23:20 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-23 15:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 15:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-11-23 17:33 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 18:25 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-11-23 18:54 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 19:15 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-11-23 21:03 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 19:30 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-23 20:54 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-23 21:04 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-11-23 21:14 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-11-23 23:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-11-23 22:50 ` [gentoo-user] " hasufell
2014-11-23 23:24 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-23 23:45 ` hasufell
2014-11-24 0:10 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-24 18:13 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-11-25 19:29 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-12-26 2:55 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-11-24 0:12 ` [gentoo-user] " hasufell
2014-11-24 0:30 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-24 8:20 ` Sid S
2014-11-24 12:41 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-24 15:06 ` Sid S
2014-12-26 2:51 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-12-26 2:40 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-11-26 15:21 ` thegeezer
2014-11-26 15:52 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-26 17:29 ` hasufell
2014-11-26 18:04 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-26 18:49 ` hasufell
2014-11-27 12:00 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-11-28 16:56 ` hasufell
2014-11-28 20:10 ` James
2014-11-26 20:28 ` [gentoo-user] " konsolebox
2014-11-26 20:39 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-26 21:58 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-11-26 23:43 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-27 1:51 ` Paige Thompson
2014-11-27 2:03 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-27 2:17 ` Paige Thompson
2014-11-27 3:01 ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-27 4:08 ` hasufell
2014-11-27 9:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-11-28 16:36 ` hasufell
2014-11-29 7:09 ` Martin Vaeth
2014-11-29 11:34 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-11-29 14:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 15:18 ` konsolebox
2014-11-29 16:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 17:21 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2014-11-29 19:38 ` hasufell
2014-12-02 21:03 ` Sid S
2014-12-02 21:11 ` Rich Freeman
2014-12-03 19:28 ` Sid S
2014-11-27 2:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Paige Thompson
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