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On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:07:40 -0700 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> The "SLOT operator" dependencies that Ciaran has been advocating are |
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> very close to a good solution. However, if we want it to work with |
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> unslotted packages, then we need to introduce a separate ABI_SLOT |
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> variable as discussed here: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192319#c18 |
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> It's really no more difficult to do than "SLOT operator" dependencies, |
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> it's more flexible, and we can do it in EAPI 5. |
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I still don't get what problem you're trying to solve with that. SLOT |
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operator dependencies are known to work for the problem, and have |
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received extensive testing both on Gentoo (with the old KDE packages) |
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and elsewhere. Why not just go with those plus blockers initially, and |
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then add in ABI_SLOT only if it turns out that developers really can't |
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handle using SLOT correctly? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |