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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: tommy@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dynamic SLOTs
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:53:53
Message-Id: 20120617175342.49253a2e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dynamic SLOTs by Thomas Sachau
1 On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:46:00 +0200
2 Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >> Beside that, it seems to solve things pretty similar to the
5 > >> proposed way in multilib-portage for cross-compiling (which could
6 > >> also be adapted for multi-slot languages) with different wording
7 > >> and with additional work for ebuild maintainers. And since my
8 > >> proposal already uses USE flags, things would not change visually
9 > >> for users of e.g. ruby or php.
10 > >
11 > > I'm sad you aren't even trying to listen. Your attempt implies that
12 > > every single change in targets requires rebuilding all of them. If I
13 > > weren't using 32-bit libs, and now I want to compile 32-bit wine, I
14 > > have to recompile most of my libraries for both ABIs. That is
15 > > a no go for me.
16 >
17 > So you want to build a 32bit package, which is depending on 32bit
18 > libs, but want to do that without the needed dependencies? Please
19 > tell me, how that works.
20
21 I'm trying to build a 32bit package and its 32bit dependencies. Your
22 solution involves building a 32bit package and rebuilding all 64bit
23 packages which happen to be its dependencies for no reason.
24
25 > > And adjusting that for other multi-slot languages is pointless.
26 > > Because they do the same already.
27 >
28 > So you dont like one framework for all multi-slot languages and prefer
29 > having each one using their own solution? Or do you just dislike my
30 > idea for them and want to use your own suggestion for them?
31
32 I'm just saying that your framework doesn't change anything for user;
33 it just involves some work to change the label.
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dynamic SLOTs Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dynamic SLOTs Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>