On 11/07/2014 08:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The main issue, though, is that getting a "good" resolution out of > crappy data is extremely difficult. There's the Babbage quote: > > | On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put > | into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In > | one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the > | Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend > | the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. > > Yet this is *exactly* what a dependency resolver has to do for Gentoo, > and it's why dependency resolvers are so complicated. > > (For comparison, Paludis on Exherbo will run an order of magnitude > faster for the same set of installed packages, simply because on > Exherbo the input is correct.) >
What;s wrong with input? PMS itself or how do maintainers write ebuilds? Could you explain?
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