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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:38:17
Message-Id: 20120606193348.67b83427@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Pacho Ramos
1 On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:30:52 +0200
2 Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3 > > > Also, how could this be handled in dbus-glib side? I mean, would
4 > > > we need to update dbus-glib update from RDEPENDing on glib:2.30 to
5 > > > glib:2.32? :O
6 > >
7 > > Noooooo. You'd use := dependencies, possibly with a >= constraint.
8 >
9 > But, what would occur if we have three slots (for example gtk+), and
10 > app needs to RDEPEND on slot 2? How would we set it to use every 2.*
11 > SLOT and not >=2?
12
13 Then you'd need range dependencies.
14
15 > Also, what is the reason to try to skip "ABI_SLOT" way?
16
17 No-one's ever implemented it, or knows how it works, or knows what
18 exactly it's supposed to do. The only advantage ABI_SLOT has is that we
19 don't know what its limitations are, other than that it doesn't
20 solve any new problems (although it might slightly simplify certain
21 specific cases, maybe).
22
23 --
24 Ciaran McCreesh

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