On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:13:04 -0700 Thomas Spuhler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:57:20 am Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:47:37 +0300 > > From: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> > > To: Mageia development mailing-list <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages > > > > > > Hi Thomas, > > > > On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700 > > > > Thomas Spuhler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing > > > > dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt > > > > , but now there are more that are not there: > > > > > > > > horde-compress > > > > horde-datatree > > > > horde-history > > > > horde-secret > > > > horde-text-filter > > > > horde-token > > > > > > > > This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra > > > > where if you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead. > > > > > > > > How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they > > > > reappear? What is the underlying problem? > > > > > > > > I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Shlomi Fish > > > > > > These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names > > > are:] > > > > > > php-pear-Horde..... > > > > > > I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built. > > > > I don't understand exactly how these things are related? Why have we been > > having lots of broken horde-* dependencies for a long while? Why do horde-* > > packages disappear? Can we discuss this on IRC? I am "rindolf" there. > > > > Regards, > > > > Shlomi Fish > Why did you rebuild these? They have been obsoleted in i586 with php-pear- > Horde packages with mostly the same name. > Because they were marked as missing dependencies in: http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt And I wanted to reduce the missing-deps list. But so far I see that I am running into many dead ends with reducing the missing-deps list, and so I'm not sure I'd like to continue with doing this anymore. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Chuck Norris doesn’t commit changes, the changes commit for him. — Araujo Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
