Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote:
> Lately I have been trying to make a dependency resolver for Gentoo.
> Meaning I want do deduce the runtime dependencies from the installed
> files, and check them against the dependencies denoted in the packet.
> This is in response to numerous comments I have gotten about running
> emerge --depclean and complainining about broken dependencies later.
> 

Most of these cases are probably fixed in >=portage-2.1 as --depclean is
much stricter in what it removes beginning with that version.

>
> It is my opinion that depclean should work, and if it doesn't then there
> is a dependency problem in the packet system.
>

Yes it should, and >=2.1 again supports using it.

> 
> Anyway, as I'm developing this program, I'm discovering a lot of minor
> bugs in the Gentoo system along the way. At the moment I'm counting 546
> bugs out of which some are probably false postives, but a large number
> are actual bugs. The number is also expected to change as I'm currently
> supressing a lot of obvious bugs.
>

Please tell us what kinds of bugs we are talking about so we can tell
you if they are bugs in your program or ebuilds.

> 
> I have also not mapped the bugs to particular packages yet, as I plan to
> do, but at any rate it seems likely there will be a large number to
> report. How do I go ahead with this?
>

I would have the problems writting in a nice format to a txt file and
put the text file online and post a link to this mailing list for us to
take a look. If there is a genuine problem, we can use bugzilla after
that to fix it.

Regards,
Petteri

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