On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:52:30 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:48:05 +0200 > Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 10:09:42 -0400 > > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Maybe in these cases the PM should make it more clear that > > > there was an alternative option. > > > > Yes, Portage could also be helped out with some output improvements. > > That isn't the issue... Developers need to stop being "clever" in > expressing dependencies, and start giving the package mangler explicit > information about what a dependency means. Relying upon heuristics to > figure out what a complicated mess of || ( ) and blockers means just > leads to things intermittently going horribly wrong. Which brings me back to the mix-in suggestion, which improves input. :) -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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