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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:48:54
Message-Id: CAEdQ38FUH3zpgmuWJpbOjt4NL2V56zQy_5xQ30KnjQwvbVCphQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots by Martin Vaeth
1 On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Martin Vaeth
2 <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > I was not suggesting inlining the list into the dependency but
4 > only inlining the USE-flag into the (single) perl ebuild.
5 > Currently if I have a package which needs e.g. Term-ANSI-Color,
6 > but not in a particular version, if I do not want to install an
7 > unnecessary duplicate version, I must inline a dependency like
8 > || ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.14 virtual/perl-Term-ANSIColor )
9 > and possibly change this if perl-5.20 does no longer contain
10 > perl-Term-ANSIColor.
11
12 Isn't that exactly what the virtual should do?

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots Martin Vaeth <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de>