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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:19:27 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:06 -0700 |
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> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:43:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > Utterly illegal, needs to die. |
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> > Why? I don't agree that it needs to be the global useflags, but I |
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> > don't consider it illegal either. |
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> It's illegal. Generated metadata must be constant and can't vary based |
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> upon user configuration, because if it does the package manager will |
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> show the wrong information at --pretend time. |
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There are also other issues, e.g. it breaks the generation of the |
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@installed package set as the installed slots can't be found in the |
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tree. As portage-2.2 makes increased use of slot atoms internally for |
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vdb handling we got a few bugreports simply due to the cache constraint |
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violation by USE=multislot. |
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Marius |
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