From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 391957FCCD for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:45:28 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:EFkmLBCex1ejz3+Rx6V7UyQJP3N1i/DPJgcQr6AfoPdwSP74oMbcNUDSrc9gkEXOFd2CrakV06yN4uu4ByQp2tWoiDg6aptCVhsI2409vjcLJ4q7M3D9N+PgdCcgHc5PBxdP9nC/NlVJSo6lPwWB6kO74TNaIBjjLw09fr2zQd+KyZ/mnLjss7ToICxwzAKnZr1zKBjk5S7wjeIxxbVYF6Aq1xHSqWFJcekFjUlhJFaUggqurpzopM0roGxsvKcq/stEGbjhcr4jBehTBTEidmQ0/9HDtB/ZTALJ6GFKAUsMlR8dIgHDpCP7W5L8qC7zsKIp2TWIFcfrUL9yXi6tufQ4ACT0gTsKYmZquFrcjdZ92fpW Authentication-Results: mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=itz@buug.org; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=itz@buug.org; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@ahiker.mooo.com Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of itz@buug.org) identity=pra; client-ip=173.255.215.69; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="itz@buug.org"; x-sender="itz@buug.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of itz@buug.org) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=173.255.215.69; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="itz@buug.org"; x-sender="itz@buug.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@ahiker.mooo.com) identity=helo; client-ip=173.255.215.69; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="itz@buug.org"; x-sender="postmaster@ahiker.mooo.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CGBwB1ZIVX/0XX/61cgz6ESKEmBQGBEJNXgXmGGAKBNToSAQEBAQEBAQFkJ4IyFYIWAQQBOjQQCws0EhQoIYg7CMAmATCFYoUVihwFjnuKII5KCoFqhFmIa5AUJQEuggkcgWwciVcBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0CGBwB1ZIVX/0XX/61cgz6ESKEmBQGBEJNXgXmGGAKBNToSAQEBAQEBAQFkJ4IyFYIWAQQBOjQQCws0EhQoIYg7CMAmATCFYoUVihwFjnuKII5KCoFqhFmIa5AUJQEuggkcgWwciVcBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,353,1464645600"; d="scan'208";a="226534601" Received: from ahiker.mooo.com ([173.255.215.69]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-GCM-SHA256; 12 Jul 2016 23:45:26 +0200 Received: from itz by ahiker.mooo.com with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bN5CT-0005B2-0f for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:26:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:26:40 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman To: caml users Message-ID: <20160712212250.16420.07053563@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Mail-Followup-To: caml users References: <5E818FB5-6908-4E29-838E-C6A2836F60CE@inria.fr> <7BDA5C9D56314AE6A0D9E07226862399@erratique.ch> <3004f713-9b54-b221-16c3-f4302abc1a44@lexifi.com> <105BC114A91747C4A583F92DB6AD6BA8@erratique.ch> <20160711085535.GA5328@frosties> <20160712182905.11322.2BBFF3E5@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library On 2016-07-12 15:01 -0400, Gabriel Scherer wrote: > > OTOH installing opam itself can be difficult because of its > > dependencies, mostly aspcud. > > > > I just switched to gentoo, and there it is pretty much impossible unless > > one's content with the internal solver. > Did you consider packaging aspcud for gentoo? Are there gentoo-specific > issues with that route? An aspcud package exists - that is not the problem. The problem is its horribly long and tangled list of dependencies. Which, unlike most distros, includes build-only dependencies, of course. And which is almost guaranteed to conflict with some other package you need for an unrelated purpose. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Why does the arrow on Hillary signs point to the right?