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On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 |
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>> > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > > > That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now |
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>> > > > being used for something that is exactly the same version as |
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>> > > > -r200. |
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>> > > |
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>> > > Did you look at SONAME? |
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>> > |
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>> > Look at SONAME before deciding what package to install? Kindly |
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>> > explain how that works. |
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>> |
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>> I'm just saying that these are two different versions of the package. |
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>> If you want GTK+3, you take the newer one. If you want GTK+2 compat, |
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>> you take the older slot. What's wrong with that? |
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> |
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> The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a "better" |
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> version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a "better" version than |
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> 1.1-r300. Indicating packages where this kind of strangeness happens |
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> allows manglers to know that things that are usually true about the |
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> relationship between slots and versions no longer hold, and that in |
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> these specific cases it should consider slots to be heavily independent. |
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You already have this info, it's called a "slot dependency". |
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Alex |
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