On 9 February 2010 02:49, Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
With every big rebuilds we get new breakage stories. It seems like it's the norm nowadays rather than the exception.
I am wondering if it's really only the users that are to blame.. or if Arch is also to blame. Or if Arch was supposed to be an elitist distribution and is victim of its success.
More importantly, I am wondering if the sodepends/soprovides proposal would not actually be a more complex solution than the libfoo2/libfoo3/libfoo4 way.
I really like the sodepends/soprovides idea, especially after the last discussion. After this one, I like it even more. The libfoo2/3/4 has always confused me, and is one of the reasons why our repos appear "cleaner" and are, in essence, "easier to navigate". But really, the only problem we all can recall from the last rebuild was cairo, of which I myself was a victim (it just skipped my mind entirely that I had a foreign cairo). Even Nagy mentioned this as an example of a breakage which sodepends/soprovides could solve, but technically it's still our own short-sightedness at fault while everything was rebuilt and ready. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD