[Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages

Sat Aug 27 18:47:37 CEST 2011

Hi Thomas,
+
+On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700
+Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+
+> On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> > Hi all,
+> > 
+> > I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing
+> > dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt ,
+> > but now there are more that are not there:
+> > 
+> > horde-compress
+> > horde-datatree
+> > horde-history
+> > horde-secret
+> > horde-text-filter
+> > horde-token
+> > 
+> > This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra where if
+> > you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead.
+> > 
+> > How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they
+> > reappear? What is the underlying problem?
+> > 
+> > I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem.
+> > 
+> > Regards,
+> > 
+> > 	Shlomi Fish
+> 
+> These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names are:]
+> 
+> php-pear-Horde..... 
+> 
+> I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built.
+> 
+
+I don't understand exactly how these things are related? Why have we been
+having lots of broken horde-* dependencies for a long while? Why do horde-*
+packages disappear? Can we discuss this on IRC? I am "rindolf" there.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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