[pacman-dev] [patch] resolvedeps cleanup + pactest
Xavier
shiningxc at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 15:39:02 EDT 2007
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:15:12PM +0200, ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu wrote:
> > Any reason the patch seems to have double line spacing?
> >
> > By the way, creating a patch with GIT is pretty simple and formats it
> > quite nicely without having to struggle with diff options.
> Sorry, I have no net at home, no git/any useable app here (this is a
> windows machine). Probably this stupid webmail client inserted extra
> lines, sorry, please delete them (I can compress them + resend, if
> needed)
>
ah too bad, I find it pretty hard to read the patch with these extra new lines.
> Back to pacman:
> There is a problem with the old/new resolvedeps: this is not
> deterministic (multiple provision) and sometimes one choice is better
> than an other one: for example "choice A" induces a package conflict,
> and choice B would solve the problem and would install the required
> package (and its dependencies) but pacman is not clever enough to find
> "choice B"...
> Bye, ngaba
>
I guess this is a reference to :
628 /*TODO this autoresolves the first 'provides' package... we should fix this
629 * somehow */
Looks like pacman could indeed be smarter in the case you describe :)
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