Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Wrong. The reason everything is such a mess at the moment is precisely > because we've accumulated so much "good enough" and "not thinking your > cunning plan all the way through"
There *is* no perfect solution. And the reason why everything is such a mess at the moment is that portage's implementation of subslot dependencies was broken (because it used a mechanism which has broken dynamic deps). *This* is what needs to be fixed but which is perhaps not easy to fix. However, changing the policy in a manner causing so many unnecessary ebuilds (and fixing not all problems either) is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. When having the choice between only non-perfect solutions, I vote for the one which keeps the distribution usable.
