Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 07-06-2012 a las 12:33 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
> On 06/07/2012 12:24 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El jue, 07-06-2012 a las 12:09 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
> >> On 06/07/2012 12:00 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >>> El jue, 07-06-2012 a las 19:44 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
> >>>> On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:43:54 +0200
> >>>> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> >>>>>> I would prefer, as a workaround, allow reverse deps to RDEPEND on
> >>>>>> glib:2.* instead. That way it would cover more cases when more than
> >>>>>> two slots are available
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, per:
> >>>>> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9f7729c047300e1924ad768a49c660e12c2f906;hp=b7750e67b4772c1064543defb7df6a556f09807b
> >>>>>
> >>>>> looks like "*" usage for SLOTs would be allowed :), or I am
> >>>>> misinterpreting it?
> >>>>
> >>>> It's not a wildcard.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> But it looks like a valid usage for cases like glib vs.
> >>> dbus-glib/gobject-introspection I have exposed as example, and also
> >>> allows us to keep "SLOT" over "ABI_SLOT" (at least for this case, not
> >>> sure about others I could be missing now...)
> >>
> >> The :* operator doesn't trigger any rebuilds though. Quoting the PMS
> >> patch that you linked:
> >>
> >> * Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime
> >> dependencies, indicates that the package will not break if the matched
> >> package is uninstalled and replaced by a different matching package in a
> >> different slot.
> >
> > I mean, use it in conjunction with ":=", one for rebuild and other to
> > indicate any 2.x SLOT fits the "normal" RDEPEND (to not need to
> > periodically update RDEPENDs or need to go back from :SLOT depends to
> > old =category/package-version-* ways)
> >
> > Allowing that, we wouldn't need ABI_SLOT (at least to prevent this issue
> > that arises with using only SLOTs for this)
>
> What you're talking about here is more similar to ABI_SLOT operator deps
> than what was originally intended for SLOT operator deps. In other
> words, anyone who is opposed to ABI_SLOT operator deps is likely to also
> be opposed to your proposal.

Oh :(, and what is the reason to want to prevent this behavior? Looks
much simpler to me than needing to use ranges for dependencies or
needing to create "compat" packages to hide the problem :|