On sob, 2017-07-08 at 15:21 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 07/08/2017 02:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > I think the affairs have settled enough and I've finished filling > > in the pre-GLEP for REQUIRED_USE auto-enforcing. It's got all > > the algorithms, rationale and separated reference implementation. > > > > If there are no major concerns raised, I will soon start working > > on writing an optimized implementation for pkgcore/pkgcheck > > and integrating the verification algos with the CI. > > > > The pre-GLEP for review is here: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:ReqUse > > > > TIA. > > > > This has grown quite a bit since first recommended! Great job so far. > Forgive me if I missed something, but wouldn't it be helpful to the user > to let them know when automatically choosing for them? A single line in > a logfile, einfo output, whatever, would be useful for people wondering > how certain packages got pulled in. Users will continue to get errors if > the constraints aren't met (or are wrong), but where will information go > that indicates the automatic solver's choice? You and I can read an > ebuild and guess from the dep spec, but what will a user look at? > > I searched the GLEP page for "log", "einfo", and "output" with no > results. If I've missed something please let me know. > > Thanks for the work that's been put into this so far. >
Indeed I have entirely skipped the user output problem, and left it purely for package manager's design choice. Do you really feel like we need to explicitly specify it? I think it's best if package manager authors decide how to best fit it into whatever output the PMs already have. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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