On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 15:33 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
Gentoo's solution to "too fast, too slow" addresses
every requirement
in this post, except for this one:
On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 10:08 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Requirement: Packagers must be able to encode whether their output
> artifacts are intended for use by other projects or if they are
> effectively private to the alternative version. Packagers must also
> have a way of finding this information out so they understand what
> they can and cannot rely on as a dependency.
Oh, and to be fair, I'll also add that Gentoo does not achieve the
"good UX" goal. But I don't think that changes the equation; I think
it'd be less effort to modify our tooling to emulate what Gentoo did
than it would be to continue on this path.