From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08478138A1A for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C3E7E0AEB; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9A8DE0AA8 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id l18so10793163wgh.2 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:15:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aTC+ZvE2IxP1dhQnhECy17JRLx8JckrG8P5MSP4EY8U=; b=MACIWewjggVgo66XnOhgmPR7ElazsQkYw4koszLM6DNuXg1jzEJZs4ZP4bbbdps8kT vp65fGV972d3sEcEVUcUyp/sxuXE6tj5hTFxIRaGYPjaGdqYenqf7vdf5rh5dQDyRnvq ZSIo2WLP2RdBPEB/MLP+d+seWtDYw8yNzyIZXatCwcniyYYDBYyilLD1cqhyp3kut04m 9Pc3L5xUIHzXRdiPjzfYlzQ7LSKRzLbUsztGY5HeH08XsnZelpCkqVCK3XoI8oep+Rm6 lgXaBTKE9jLzNPTnL+Og7iGkiFoDLuFxJAno697XN0U/++15vbyTSqnkSf48UEMErZlw 9yaA== X-Received: by 10.180.93.37 with SMTP id cr5mr16076892wib.76.1416777322628; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-217-13.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.217.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id wa10sm18173193wjc.8.2014.11.23.13.15.20 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:15:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54724E50.4060402@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:14:56 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ? References: <5470D229.7000806@tampabay.rr.com> <5470DBF5.1060304@gentoo.org> <547111B5.2030909@gentoo.org> <20141123151825.GA2139@vidovic.ultras.lan> <5471FDE1.2040108@googlemail.com> <20141123173348.GB2139@vidovic.ultras.lan> <20141123205411.GE2139@vidovic.ultras.lan> In-Reply-To: <20141123205411.GE2139@vidovic.ultras.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d234effc-2e21-43eb-b4e6-e13a36fa2533 X-Archives-Hash: 26f58d78f7e007d4c58098a713062276 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 >> 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