13 Nov
2007
13 Nov
'07
12:27 p.m.
> I'm regretting Nagy didn't point this out earlier then. > I don't know why I never thought about this. Now that it's said, and I'm > looking back at all the issues related to requiredby, it makes a lot of > sense. > It would also eliminate the eventual problems caused by an existing broken > database, with wrong requiredby. Well, I'm quoting Aaron here (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-October/009498.html): "The more and more ideas that are pumped out to this list, the more confused we get, and the harder it is to keep up. It's like.... if I throw a baseball at you, you might catch it, but if I throw 50, you won't catch them all." And he has right now. I've got plenty of plans in my mind, indeed; I didn't point this out earlier, because: 1. Main reason: I always prefer bugfixes over "improvements" (see also: 2.). And well, in my priority list this is not so important at all: -give a look at libalpm/sync.c (simply horrible) -we have some critical bugs now (symlink puzzle), and some other notable failing pactests too, buggy reason handling etc. -my main "mission" here is to reach the universal transaction ;-) 2. Now the requiredby stuff is expected to work fine (I can bet that Travis's problem is not a bug now). 3. Throwing requiredby to trash-bin is also throwing our hard work to release 2., too 4. To be honest, I simply thought that you won't like it 5. I have some pending submitted patches here (I don't want to throw 50 baseballs... ;-) > > But I'm not the project manager, and pacman 3.1 indeed has to be released > one > day :) > Well, sometimes I have the feeling that we should release pacman more often. I said earlier that pacman-git is more stable than devel repo. And indeed, I simply use pacman-git at home, fortunately without bigger problems. Sometimes I get disappointed about the fact, that Arch users have to wait so much for the next release: Pacman 3.0.6 fails 29 (vs. 8) pactest files from 3.1 (remove046.py lead to an infinite loop...) Bye, ngaba ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/