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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