[gentoo-dev] Re: Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

[Ryan Hill]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:25:20 +0100
James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:10:30 +0200
> Patrice Clement <monsieurp@g.o> wrote:
>
> > Tuesday 07 Apr 2015 20:41:05, Pacho Ramos wrote :
> > > Wouldn't be possible to show a repoman warning when a dependency on
> > > any dev-java/${PN} doesn't specify a SLOT? That would save of from
> > > forgetting this in some years ;)
> > >
> > Chewi suggested a similar solution in #gentoo-java. How do we get
> > started with contributing to repoman?
>
> The change I intend to make is not to repoman but java-utils-2.eclass
> where there is already a check to ensure that a dependency has been
> added, it just doesn't check the SLOT at the moment. It outputs an
> error message by default but dies if you have JAVA_PKG_STRICT set,
> which all Java devs should do.

I just got this warning and had to do some digging to figure out where it
came from and what it wanted me to do. Can you add a comment to the eclass
(maybe a link to your mail which explained things well) and a pointer to the
eclass in the message?


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