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-...@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.mckin...@gmail.com
