That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

[Les Mikesell]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> Or paraphrased: You can't have a technical soultion for a inter-human
> problem. If the packagers don't talk to each other in a forthcomming
> way then you can have some depsolver be intelligent enough to avoid
> breakage.

Could a technical solution at least identify the conflicts?  That is, 
could a program walk through the files available in some number of 
different repos, find the overlapping set of files and then do something 
to test for at least obvious breakage in terms of library requirements, 
etc?  Aren't the computers supposed to be smarter than us these days - 
or at least faster at the grunge work?

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   Les Mikesell
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