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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:25:33
Message-Id: CAB9SyzSj=jAU8yav_zbqrJjMaHVeHFhmUj8TUROyrEmk2jKMKw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots by Matt Turner
1 On 28 June 2012 13:03, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:45:46 +0100
4 >> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200
7 >>> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
8 >>> > > It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat "the
9 >>> > > gtk3 version" or "the jruby version" as being newer versions of
10 >>> > > "the gtk2 version" or "the ruby 1.8 version", just as it tries to
11 >>> > > bring in a newer GCC and so on.
12 >>> >
13 >>> > And what problems is that causing for you?
14 >>>
15 >>> The problem is that there's no way of knowing that -r300 is not "a
16 >>> newer version" than -r200
17 >
18 > It's actually not though, is it? I think -r300 is simply the same
19 > thing as -r200 except that it uses gtk3 instead of gtk2.
20
21 What it means is that it's the same package and version,
22 but a 100 revisions of the ebuild later. It makes one wonder
23 what the heck is going on there...
24
25 --
26 Cheers,
27
28 Ben | yngwin
29 Gentoo developer
30 Gentoo Qt project lead