Am 17.12.2010 17:37, schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:27:05 +0100 > Sebastian Luther <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 17.12.2010 16:25, schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: >>> So would anyone be especially opposed to making "best leftmost" an >>> explicit requirement, enforced by repoman where possible (at least >>> for the >= / < case)? >> >> Why can't the PM handle >= / < cases itself? > > Because things are almost never as simple as 'just' >= / <. You can add > in clever trickery to deal with very specific cases, but the second > someone throws things off by adding in a use dependency or a third > package, things get weird.
I thought we were talking about the simplest case here, that is a list of atoms for the same cat/pkg. > > Consider a variation on the original case: || ( <a-2 >=a-2[x] ) where > the user has specified -x for a. What should happen then? > > What about || ( <a-2[x] b >=a-2 ) ? Should that be rewritten in the same > way? > > What about || ( <a-2[x] ( >=a-2 b ) ) ? Should the package mangler be > clever enough to figure that one out too? What if b isn't already > installed there? What would repoman enforce here? > > Which is really the problem: clever heuristics get extremely > complicated very quickly, and they're never enough. > Agreed. Sebastian
