On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:03:55 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The problem with any visibility filtering is that visibility > >> depends on user configuration [1], and I don't know what changes in > >> the package manager would be necessary to make this work correctly > >> and efficiently. For example, how does portage's --autounmask-write > >> option interact with it? > > > Leave solving this to Portage developers. Autounmasking is not > > something you do often on stable systems, and we have better QA to > > avoid issues that could require it. > > Yeah, if I wasn't sure about Display-If-Visible, then this statement > would finally convince me that we should skip that feature, for the > time being. That something does not happen often is no excuse for not > having an implementation that can handle such rare cases. Implementation != specification. I'm not saying the implementation shouldn't handle them. It's also nice how you stripped the more important part of my answer. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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