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. > > Revbump or make dynamic deps actually work (ha). > > If they are really as broken people claim, why is the feature enabled > by default in the > official package manager? Why are these discussions resounding more strongly with each occurrence? > As in, why I'm not seeing a bug with title "sys-apps/portage: disable > dynamic deps by default" https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516612 > with a Comment #0 listing all the culprits why it should be disabled > by default? They've been gathered throughout this thread; yes, they could use a summary, but that doesn't change that all the culprits exist out there. > Or do people think it works well enough, so that it's pros overweight > the cons? I do, > and many others seem to think so as well. Depends on what the pros and cons are; it makes the difference between merely thoughts and an actual reality, to construct towards a decision. -- 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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