On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:24:39PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> >> Or paraphrased: You can't have a technical soultion for a inter-human >> problem. If the packagers don't talk to each other in a forthcomming >> way then you can have some depsolver be intelligent enough to avoid >> breakage. > > Could a technical solution at least identify the conflicts? That is, could > a program walk through the files available in some number of different > repos, find the overlapping set of files and then do something to test for > at least obvious breakage in terms of library requirements, etc? Aren't > the computers supposed to be smarter than us these days - or at least > faster at the grunge work? Imagine foo depending on bar having feature baz enabled. How should a smarter-than-us computer decide whether bar was built with baz enabled or not? You can use file matching to identify 90% of the issues, and several other heuristics to find some more issues, but you will always have a large dark number of inccompatibilites that you can't trace other than trial and failure methods. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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