I have tried to address the issues you mentioned, and rewritten the GLEP to be a IMHO much more precise in exactly how I see this being accomplished.
Please have a look, and tell me what you think. The rewritten GLEP is still here: http://vsen.dk/files/GLEP-Making_updates_never_break_dependencies.txt On tor, 2003-11-06 at 17:13, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > I just wrote a GLEP, proposing a solution to the problem that updating > > f.ex. openssl, requires recompiling almost world > > (kde,mozilla,galeon,wget,irrsi,python etc.) - and breaks your system if > > you don't complete all this, while you are running (since the old > > openssl files are removed after the openssl upgrade -and programs that > > haven't been recompiled will break). > > Dear Mr. Klavsen, > Thank you very much for submitting this GLEP. I think it may need a > bit of work before we can accept it, however. A minor point is that we > request that GLEPs be written in a formal manner (no abbreviations such > as "f.ex", spelling should be checked, sentences should be complete, > subject and predicate should agree in number, etcetera). The more > substantive comment is that this GLEP raises a number of issues that I > think the GLEP itself should address: who will be making the required > portage changes, how would these changes impact developers, how > extensive would those changes be, how would these changes impact > performance, are there other alternative solutions to this problem that > should be considered, would the introduction of "reverse-dependencies" > solve this problem? I've CC'd carpaski, the Gentoo Portage lead, in > case he might have additional comments. > > Sincerely, > Grant Goodyear > GLEP Editor -- Regards, Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.vsen.dk PGP: 7E063C62/2873 188C 968E 600D D8F8 B8DA 3D3A 0B79 7E06 3C62 See my new managed CMS Hosting Service at http://www.VirkPaaNettet.dk Working with Unix is like wrestling a worthy opponent. Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child who is carrying a .38.
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