Hello Ciaran, Friday, August 8, 2014, 5:22:03 PM, you wrote:
>> get the result - install the application you need, leaving everything >> else AS IS untouched and stable? > cave resolve --lazy :P A great option name :-) I liked it. Wish it were there. Updating only the minimum necessary packages required is natural, wide system update is a wrong math model. There are regulations in avionics, cybernetics and other life sensitive construction bureaus prohibiting system wide updates. BTW - directly follows from nature. Any complex bird is not updated on daily basis, it takes small steps, small changes targeting only small fixes - natures is adaptive and doesn't know where to move, it probes carefully, always backups, always reversible, moves forward but very accurately, if the change in a bird is deep the chance is that it will stop functioning and die - for nature that means millions of years of genome programming is wasted. Whew, a lot of work. NATURE is VERY lazy, and that's why I liked your option name a lot :-) you nailed it. From Cybernetics: Laziness is a built in algorithm. It controls system resources in case there is no threat to the system purposes with higher priorities. In other words - if what you're doing right now is well adopted to fulfill hard-coded in genome high priority purposes - there IS NO NEED TO CHANGE anything. GENTOO (and many other systems) in many ways violate the profound nature laws found out by venerable scientists, therefore what is done in long perspective is futile, it's more like painting the grass. You need 100 times more effort and resources to keep grass painted, each time you paint - a system wide update happens which is then REVERSED by nature. May be not a good example - but reflecting. One of the main built-in by nature perceptions of what is RIGHT or WRONG in human Genmoe is time. After all our lifes are limited and the most precious what we have is time. Returning to our programming. Anything what is designed by a programmer for a user should be first evaluated from the time users spends. In fact you have no control over it - as a programmer you either accept it or leave the trade. If user feels he spends time - the project is a failure. Anything you ever design - should require no time for a user to achieve the result. And finding and accessing what eats time is the virtue a talented programmer has. Those are problems we face with GENTOO design if only the team could clearly state the problems and shift focus on their solution - GENTOO would be the greatest system ever. BUT From Cybernetics: As the environment changes - most systems are designed to adopt. Meaning there are many alternative systems solving differently same tasks, not VERY differently but differently enough to function in a situation where another system would cease. Many variants of the same system with variations exist in nature. That what keeps is pulling in different directions, we're moving somewhere as most of us are not aware of deep algorithms inside of us which rules us so subtly. The nature is the greatest system designer, we all have to learn from it. PS Jeroen knows an option, but he won't tell - he is from GENTOO bug tracking service - no one can stand bug tracking for more than 1 year and he is there for more than 5, so you reckon.. he is probably reading this right now - try to be very quiet... -- Best regards, Igor mailto:lanthrus...@gmail.com
