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Patrick Lauer <patrick <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> On 06/23/12 21:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > There's been a move towards using slots for "clever" things that don't |
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> > fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new |
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> > gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. |
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> > Aside from being abusive, |
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> No, it solves a real problem. |
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> > this screws things up for Paludis users. |
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> -EDONTCARE, use a supported package manager |
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So if the packagemanager is struggling to resolve whether a package belongs in a |
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slot or not, would this be a case for encoding such metadata in the ebuild |
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filename. |
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foo-slot2-3.2.1.ebuild |
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This way the PM would be able to determine exactly what it has todo before it |
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starts to parse the ebuild |
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