Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am 23.11.2014 um 22:14 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 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.
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> I'll tell you what I'm seeing.
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> I'm seeing a theoretical description of magic software that mathematics
> predicts can exist. I don't see running software.
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> How about you write running software that does what you describe, then
> we can talk more, m'kay?
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oh, the magical cantation known as 'write the code or shut up' ...