Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:53:47 +0200
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
> Le dimanche 10 juin 2012 à 21:55 +0200, Sebastian Pipping a écrit :
> > On 06/10/2012 05:54 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> > > For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support
> > > into different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an example; the
> > > gtk2-based versions have -r2xx revision numbers and go in slot 2,
> > > while the gtk3-based versions have -r3xx revision numbers and go
> > > in slot 3).
> >
> > That's a crazy but interesting approach.
>
> That's not crazy, it's the least confusing way to go as package
> managers cannot have the same version in two slots. We added a suffix
> that allows differenciation and still easy reading of which slot the
> upgrade is about.

Perhaps you should be asking for a feature that allows you to solve it
properly, rather than abusing existing features to do something they're
not intended for.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh