Allan McRae wrote:

Bryan Ischo wrote:

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Hey all. I've broken my change into 5 patches, which have already been sent to the list.

The big one is patch #2, which adds the new ignore logic to deps.c. Although the number of lines edited is large, it's just the addition of a new data structure, some helper methods, and a rework of _alpm_resolvedeps(). There is no way to reduce the size of this patch.

I hope that these patches are satisfactory. If you'd just give them a try they should merge nicely into your tree. Create a branch and merge them in and test them out. That's what git is good at right?!?

Please note that these patches replace all previous patches I've sent to this list.

Thanks, Bryan

Hi Bryan,

The main patch (#2) is too complex for me to review, but on accepting that as is, the other patches look quite reasonable. I will give them a proper spin when I do a testing build later.

Is there something I can do to make #2 clearer? Is there someone who is going to review this and "bless" it for inclusion in the pacman sources? Should I be addressing my emails to that person instead of the list?

I just wanted to point out that you should not to get too discouraged about the number of resubmits required for your patches. Everybody who submits patches here goes through the same thing, especially with their first patch and yours are quite ambitious. You should see the changes required any time I touch the pacman code...

Thank you for the encouraging words. I did get a little frustrated earlier today and I'm sure that came through in my posts. But I'm feeling much better now as I think that the split up patches are actually better than the single big mega-patch that I had previously submitted. And all of this patch manipulation has taught me alot about git, which I had previously been interested in learning (coming from a subversion background), but never had the opportunity to use in practice. In working on pacman I feel that I have almost become sort of comfortable with git, at least with the basic operations, so regardless of what happens with my pacman patches, I feel very happy with what I'm getting out of the process. Bryan