suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

[Chris Rees]

On 2 Sep 2011 20:53, "Mark Linimon" <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:39:14AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> > My point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases
>
> In a perfect world: yes.
>
> > I certainly don't have any precise idea of the things which should be
> > changed so that edge cases disappear
>
> Well, then, we're right back where we started.
>
> > only *very experienced* people having observed a lot of failure cases
> > could give correct advices.
>
> And we haven't figured them out yet.
>
> As the tools get better (which they are), we can get more insight into
> this.  But, as you already understand, it's really hard.
>
> > Having a file which documents manual intervention is a perpetual
> > tenptation to do the things the sloppy way
>
> I disagree with your logic.  None of the FreeBSD committers _want_ this
> to be difficult.
>

+1.

Most of us despise its very existence, but recognise that just sometimes, it
saves some horribly fragile code from being written.

Chris