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By dabrahams:

on Wed Jan 11 2012, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

> I never was interested much into parallel as I am in async. Then, your
> model did have its share of bugs I didn't know how to fix, like how to
> handle installing several packages sharing a dependency.

Just FWIW, there's no reason my code should have had any trouble at all
with a scenario like that. The logic should Just Work(TM) and in
practice it did. I had no problem at all when doing shared-dependency
installations. I think you may be mis-ascribing any problems you saw to
that code. But that's all water under the bridge now.

> As the code maintainer, I find the new way so much simpler to maintain
> than I won't ever consider going back to race conditions and the like.

That's fine, as I said.