On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:36:31 +0800 Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2014 01:06:15 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:10:20 +0300 > > > > Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On 22/07/14 04:05, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > > > > And just for fun, since no one has mentioned it yet, dynamic > > > > deps don't work at all on binpkgs since the Packages file > > > > contains the deps (like vardb) and it doesn't get updated (just > > > > like vardb). > > > > > > Known long standing pitfall. It's managable. > > > > It is one of the reasons I see binpkgs as breaking progress instead > > of being part of the progress; it is manageable, but it could be > > better. > > So you'd rather have people not using Gentoo because you can't > agilely pivot your strategy mixin? No, that's not what I've said; the paragraph you quote is based on an observation, not a statement. In that observation; if people want a mixin, they would go for a full mixin and not for a half broken mixin. > Without binpkg support I'd feel the need to hack it up, just to get > things fast enough. It's one of the features that haven't been made > popular enough (eh, we could easily provide binpkg-updates for > @system for all profiles and the most common arches (amd64, x86, > maybe arm) - I've been running a cronjob doing that for x86+amd64 for > about a year now) > > This perspective of "I don't need it, thus it shouldn't exist" is > quite ... amusing. +1; "It doesn't work, it shouldn't exist" is less amusing, more ideal it should be "it doesn't work, let's fix or replace it" if we can... -- 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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