-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/13 12:51 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:36:49 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh > <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:22:32 -0400 Alexis Ballier >> <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:13:49 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh >>> <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 Michael Palimaka >>>> <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 >>>>>> times the libraries are set up as maintainers expect them >>>>>> to be, it is probably better to deal with the odd >>>>>> unnecessary rebuild until somebody spots it, rather than >>>>>> going without support for slot operator deps. >>>>> >>>>> With respect, "good enough" is not a very high standard to >>>>> aim for. In my opinion, adding unnecessary subslot >>>>> dependencies is no different to adding overly-wide >>>>> dependencies. >>>> >>>> There's a world of difference between a horrible breakage and >>>> an occasional unnecessary compile. If users are concerned >>>> about how they spend their CPU time, they're using the wrong >>>> distribution. >>> >>> there is something wrong in the way its done if there are >>> 'occasional unnecessary compiles' >> >> Not really. There's a tradeoff between dependencies that are >> occasionally too strict, and dependencies that are horribly >> complicated (see "subslot dictionaries"). > > > having a way to express 'my subslot is the one of my provider' > doesnt seem overly complicated >
That's not subslot-dictionaries, tho -- sub-slot dictionaries is the solution proposed to handle i.e. the poppler case, so there are two (or more) sub-slots, one for the main lib and one for the less-changing client lib, so that consumers can trigger rebuilds on just the portion that matters instead of every time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIBBBUACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDUcwD/XnGZymkRn5+YHF7cXAo6URtC 2058nmFx90ROUBtgIngA/RXa23UWACMLH2J7lZlNsCJBkfRPZ95BL7aeyBvKDdxM =AkWd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
