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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:54:43 +1200 |
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Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Reminds me of the other awkward behaviour I once hit where a package |
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> depends on something that is slotted, and mysteriously uses a middle |
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> version of the things that are slotted, and then breaks with that |
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> version that it for some mysterious reason found a preference for, and |
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> upon removing that particular version of the slot, it uses the most |
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> recent slotted version instead, and then works perfectly. |
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There was going to be a really simple, elegant, ebuild-controllable and |
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provably working fix for that in EAPI 4 in the form of := deps, but |
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they got dropped because Portage couldn't implement it. |
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Which is strange, because it should have been a ten minute job... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |