On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:26:32 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Well I bought this bug-spray and it only kills 99% of the bugs in my | home, so I guess I should scrap it and work on something better that | kills 100% of bugs?
Pff, bad analogy. Better to say "should I spend time installing this device which kills greenfly, or should I spend slightly more time installing a similar device which kills off all kinds of nasty bugs?". | If this helps stem system breakage by repairing a number of broken | library deps, how is that bad? Because it doesn't adhere to Ciaran's | ideal feature standards? Because it's a significant amount of wasted work. Solving the problem properly isn't much harder, however, and it will avoid having to keep around the proposed broken implementation in the future for compatibility with legacy apps. | > | So in regards to reverse dependency tracking, do you have a | > | solution/advice or just useless criticism? Please attempt to be | > | constructive here. | > | > Sure. My advice is to scrap the current idea and redo it to take | > into account things which are not just ELF-related. | | Bricklayers build walls, one brick at a time. And if you're continuing the bad analogies, then bricklayers put down bricks where they are needed, and do not randomly chuck bricks into place in arbitrary locations because they happen to have a brick handy. Also, building a wall out of pebbles and sand isn't a very good idea... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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