On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:06:46 -0400 Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 2020-09-04 08:54, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > py37 will (*) still be installed as it cannot be depcleaned because > > of 1. emerge won't fail since deps are satisfied. > > > > > > (*) or rather should, but I think the only case that matters is a > > valid system state where noone forced uninstall of a needed package > > or manually rm'ed some random files > > > > There's no need to speculate; use pkgcore for a month and come back > and tell me how much comfort these hypotheticals were. there's no speculation in assuming a consistent set of installed packages (consistent as specified in... PMS ;) ); there is, however, speculation in the hypothetical error messages when the installed set of packages is inconsistent > >> or.. > >> > >> 3b. Some reverse dependency of foo-1.2.3 gets python-3.8 support. > >> 4b. A user tries to install that revdep, but the PM sees that > >> the latest version of foo is already installed, and it (the > >> installed version) doesn't support python-3.8. Mysterious > >> error messages and manual intervention ensue. > > > > > > precisely the case I wrote above: unsatisfied dep -> pull ebuild. > > non-issue too. > > It's easy to say "well this is not an issue because it can be solved > by <thing no package manager does and is not part of the PMS>..." are you kidding ? are you seriously suggesting adding to PMS that PM needs to pull ebuilds to install packages ? good luck with that ;)
