On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:13:57 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:07:00 +0200 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > The best way to convince me is through valid examples. > > > > It is also easier to be convinced when you try to understand and ask > > for clarifications instead of just rejecting without thinking :) > > The problem with this entire proposal is that it's still in "well I > can't think of how it could possibly go wrong" territory. We need a > formal proof that it's sound. History has shown that if something can > be abused by Gentoo developers, it will be abused... Had you read the thread you would have noticed that I provided an algorithm giving sufficient conditions for the solver to work. That is, if developers pay attention to repoman warnings/errors, it will never fail. Obviously, since we're still in the SAT space, you can ignore the errors and make it fail, but it'll never be worse than what we currently have.
