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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?
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Alan McKinnon
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