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I don't know what the original reason was, but having them in different SLOTs |
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would require everyone who writes an ebuild for an app that uses automake |
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to know which version of automake it uses, and DEPEND on that automake. I |
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don't think that's very realistic. |
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Alain |
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:02:20PM -0500, Evan Powers wrote: |
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> I'm curious, is there a reason the current automake ebuilds bundle several |
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> automake versions in one big clump rather than having several ebuilds using |
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> different SLOTs? |
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> I'm aware that automake has undergone a number of incompatible changes since |
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> 1.5, and that a machine will almost certainly want several different automake |
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> versions installed. But this situation seems to be exactly the problem SLOTs |
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> were designed to solve. |
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> Is there a reason it's not being done that way? |
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> Evan |
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