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On 10/06/12 06:49 PM, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:25:55PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 Zac Medico |
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>> <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. |
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>>> Using the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the |
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>>> dbus-glib dependency will be expressed with an atom such as |
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>>> dev-libs/glib:2:= and the package manager will translate that |
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>>> atom to dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is always |
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>>> used to distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used to |
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>>> distinguish ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good? |
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>> Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32". |
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> Hate the slash; just looks ugly to me (so starts the bikeshed). |
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> Sans that naggle, notions fine however; not sure I'm a fan of |
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> people being able to specify the exact ABI they need from an ebuild |
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> while it's in source form, but may be of use for emul-* packages. |
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> ~harring |
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It's power will come from detection of the different SLOT= assignment |
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between ebuilds of a particular library package. I don't forsee that |
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there is going to be very much usage of the '/[ABI]' part in *DEPEND. |
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