Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:49:49
Message-Id: 200705151615.53800.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > preserve_old_lib is a horrible hack that shouldn't be being used at all.
3 > Don't push it as an alternative for proper slotting.
4
5 In it's current state it's indeed a horrible hack. But slotting is in many
6 cases no solution either. When you have to move headers and other files to
7 avoid file collisions and have to adjust every single dependending package
8 accordingly, it's quickly getting a ridiculous maintenance nightmare.
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11 Carsten

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