On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 > Justin <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from >> others? Probably you better should. > > Uh huh, and I think we all know there's a huge difference between > knowing what versions and slots are and knowing what "a multilib" is. > >> An example: >> >> "...slots and versions to "mean" something other than what they used >> to,..." >> >> is completely useless without a description of what SLOTS are about >> and how the should be used. And what is the wrong usage you can find; >> examples are necessary here for understanding. > > That's covered in the devmanual and in the user documentation, so > there's no need to repeat it here.
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/index.html http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#slot-dependencies I don't think the documentation forbids what these developers are doing. I think you implemented a nice heuristic for your users in your resolver that used to work because slots had a typical set of users cases and the heuristic performed well in those cases. Now people are occasionally using slots in a different way and your heuristic penalizes those cases. That sucks, but you might have to actually change your resolver because I don't think 'funky-slots' properties is going to garner much adoption. It just appears that the heuristic you used to use isn't helpful anymore (or has too any false positives, or whatever.) -A > >> To me, it doesn't solve the root cause, but actually I can't judge >> this, because I am missing a description of what is really going >> wrong. > > As I've already said, this isn't about solving the root cause. It's > about reducing the impact of damage that's already been done until the > root cause is solved properly. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh
