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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:11:15 +0300 |
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Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> > * SLOT-OPERATOR-DEPS |
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> An outstanding problem to me as a package maintainer is the lack of |
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> means to know which slot the PM actually picked for the package, as |
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> some of my co-maintained packages have no use of := if it can't know |
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> which version was picked to act accordingly in src_configure. |
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The best installed version that matches the spec is always picked |
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for :=. We originally considered making this more complicated, or |
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possibly making ways of saying "all installed slots", but neither |
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appears to have a legitimate use case. The latter in particular would |
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only encourage abuse (people might mistakenly think it's a solution to |
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the Python / Ruby ABIs thing). |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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