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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:02:20 -0500 |
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Evan Powers <powers.161@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> I'm curious, is there a reason the current automake ebuilds bundle |
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> several automake versions in one big clump rather than having several |
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> ebuilds using different SLOTs? |
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> I'm aware that automake has undergone a number of incompatible changes |
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> since 1.5, and that a machine will almost certainly want several |
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> different automake versions installed. But this situation seems to be |
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> exactly the problem SLOTs were designed to solve. |
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> Is there a reason it's not being done that way? |
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Because it simplifies dependencies, and auto detection of what version |
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should be used ? |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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