Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:42:05
Message-Id: 20120623183656.59a92746@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots by Alec Warner
1 On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:35:36 -0700
2 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3 > I don't think portage has the behavior that paludis does, so most
4 > users are not likely to experience this particular problem. You know
5 > as well as I that the marking isn't necessarily trivial.
6
7 But this time it is trivial. That's the point.
8
9 > It could be that instead of Gentoo tagging a bunch of ebuilds, you
10 > just change your resolver heuristic a bit.
11
12 The resolver heuristic is correct, except in the cases where people are
13 doing utterly weird things with revisions and slots.
14
15 --
16 Ciaran McCreesh

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