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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:32:38
Message-Id: 4FD2530C.5080906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Pacho Ramos
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4 On 08/06/12 03:23 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > El vie, 08-06-2012 a las 12:16 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
6 >> It's close enough to ABI_SLOT that it would make more sense just
7 >> to use ABI_SLOT because it's more flexible.
8 >
9 > In that case, I think it's clear we need ABI_SLOT ;) The problem is
10 > how to document it in a way people agree with including it for
11 > eapi5 :|
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13 If there's too much resistance it could wait for EAPI=6 couldn't it?
14 Essentially we'd all just agree that these issues, which ABI_SLOT will
15 be needed to effectively resolve, will have to wait and we shouldn't
16 do vast tree-wide workarounds like SLOT every library in existence and
17 require all consumers to have ':=' slot operators on their deps.
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