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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:08:18
Message-Id: 20120623200903.3fb8b85b@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:56:42 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:54:13 +0200
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:45:46 +0100
7 > > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
8 > > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200
9 > > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
10 > > > > > It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat
11 > > > > > "the gtk3 version" or "the jruby version" as being newer
12 > > > > > versions of "the gtk2 version" or "the ruby 1.8 version", just
13 > > > > > as it tries to bring in a newer GCC and so on.
14 > > > >
15 > > > > And what problems is that causing for you?
16 > > >
17 > > > The problem is that there's no way of knowing that -r300 is not "a
18 > > > newer version" than -r200
19 > >
20 > > It is a newer version. That's why it has a newer revision.
21 >
22 > That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now being
23 > used for something that is exactly the same version as -r200.
24
25 Did you look at SONAME?
26
27 > > > and that the jruby implementation is not "a
28 > > > newer version" than the ruby 1.8 implementation.
29 > >
30 > > And that's another thing which is ugly and should be replaced by
31 > > something sane rather than worked around.
32 >
33 > I agree. But until that happens, which probably isn't going to be
34 > anytime soon, we need to know where something weird is happening, and
35 > that's what this proposal provides.
36
37 Yes, let's introduce some random 'funky' word for a single ebuild. Or..
38 since it's just a single package, maybe you would just add an ignore
39 list to paludis.
40
41 --
42 Best regards,
43 Michał Górny

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