Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

["Kent Fredric" <kentfredric@gmail.com>]

> Quite Erroneous Debate?
>
> > > Jakub is no longer a bug-wrangler, or a dev, he retired last month.
> >
> > Ah, good things still happen ? ;P
>
> Jakub was very good at his job, but he does have an attitude problem.
>
> Are you trying to emulate him, you are already halfway there?
>

Give the guy a break :P. When your having to deal with lots of noobs
being retarded telling you you're wrong on a daily basis when you know
otherwise, I guess most people get frustrated at it :P.

So lets not be bashing him, especially when hes not around to fend for
himself eh?

Imo, the cyclic dep problem could be solved as thus,

A depends B
    B depends  C||A

Where C is a minimalist subset of A required for building B, which is
only depended on if A is not present.
A is also a replacement for C.

So the flow would go like such.

Emerge A:
  * depends on b
     * A is missing, so depend on C
*emerges C*
*emerges B*
*removes C*  <-- otherwise  A & C containing the same files = headache
*emerges A*

Yes, indeed I agree that we could just do this by hand by changing a
USE flag, but we should at least be open to the idea of looking for a
way to automatically resolve the problem. Computers exist to make our
life easier, not the other way around :)

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Kent
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