Kristen Kozak
Kristen Kozak
> @grayjay My intuition is that the current design should reject your counterexample because it violates the closure property: > > > If two dependencies a and c appear in...
@alt-romes I thought about the idea of packages in a private scope working together, and I realized that I don't really understand what happens when packages in a private scope...
Does freeze need to handle changes in the set of installed packages?
@dcoutts I was wondering what should happen when a user runs new-freeze, removes a globally installed package, and then runs new-configure again. Should new-freeze just freeze the version numbers, so...
@dcoutts Thanks for explaining. I'm still not very familiar with the overall design for new-build, but I think that using goal qualifiers in freeze constraints makes sense. The only problem...
A constraint that applies to all packages' setup scripts doesn't correspond to a qualifier in the solver, but it probably wouldn't be much harder to implement.
@robjhen Are you still interested in working on this issue?
No problem! I just wanted to make sure that we don't duplicate work. Thanks for working on it. I don't know how soon this feature will be needed, though. @dcoutts,...
Thanks. So two months would be soon enough?
@alt-romes Sorry for the delay. Thank you for working on the backtracking stress test. It sounds promising that the runtimes were comparable to master. I'm not sure I understand what...