On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:21:24 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The user experience is suboptimal either way. Some ideas to improve > that seems to be e.g something like Kent brought up. But all this > requires manpower and so on to actually do; potentially also limiting > potential manpower to whom has or can get some deep graph theory > knowledge.
I hear you, but 3 other languages already do it another way. Java is easily as complex if not more complex. This problem was seen coming a long time ago with 1.4 -> 1.5. Any issues with Python/Ruby versions were and are still experienced with Java versions. Java is more complex all around. If it can be done for Java, it can be done for the others. It is more a question of will than man power. Any argument that can be made for Python or Ruby. Applies to Java, Perl and PHP, with minor differences. Less with PHP and Ruby, as those install location is based on version. Java is the only that does not install based on version. Anything in Gentoo that goes against the status quo gets heavy resistance and thus Gentoo does not change. But continues on with the status quo.... -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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