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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:42:06
Message-Id: 201309270041.24624.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots by Michael Palimaka
1 2013-09-26 17:04 Michael Palimaka napisał(a):
2 > What about when the subslot of boost was equal to ${PV}? Was it really a
3 > good idea to make everyone rebuild half their system for a bugfix
4 > release, without even checking if the ABI changed?
5
6 It is wrong example due to 2 reasons:
7 1. Subslot of dev-libs/boost::gentoo was never equal to ${PV}.
8 2. Sonames of Boost libraries actually include full ${PV}, so rebuilding of reverse dependencies
9 would be necessary after upgrade from Boost 1.54.0 to hypothetical 1.54.1.
10
11 Although upstream rarely releases X.Y.Z with Z != 0 (last was 1.46.1).
12 http://www.boost.org/users/history/
13
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15 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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