[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix bug 9395 by allowing pacman to remove unresolvable packages from a transaction

[Bryan Ischo]

Xavier wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Bryan Ischo
> <bji-keyword-pacman.3644cb at www.ischo.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm ready to send my patches as 2 patches:
>>
>> - One with everything except the removal of the "would you like to not
>> ignore this package that you put in your IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup list" dialog
>> - One to subsequently remove said dialog
>>
>>     
>
> Short and simple patches are much more likely to be accepted :)
> So I would do the short and simple patches first, and then basing the
> more complex ones on them.
> That way, you have more chances that at least a part of your work get merged.
>
> I have to be honest and admit I didn't find the motivation to review
> your changes. I do like the idea, but it's still a huge code addition
> ( lib/libalpm/deps.c            |  259
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------)
> and I was hoping there would be a better and simpler way to integrate
> this in the existing code.
> Maybe the idea Nagy made several times before, to compute our
> dependency graph once and then store it and re-use it, would help
> here. But this is a huge change too :)
> ______________________________________________
OK, I'll do my best to split my patches up.  But most of what I am 
trying to do cannot be split up.  If the number of added lines in deps.c 
scares you, please understand that it's just the addition of one new 
internal data structure, a few helper methods, and some moderate 
re-arrangement of one existing function.  If you'd apply the patch 
locally, you'd be able to see how reasonably self-contained it all is.

Anyway, I'll make one more attempt and getting the patches into a form 
that you'll accept.

Thanks,
Bryan