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From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:55:56
Message-Id: 41797.192.168.2.155.1179229527.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 > Isn't this why we have slots?
2
3 Yeah, but I think it's a hack in this case. All of the current versions in portage
4 are 1.95, which I believe were pre-releases to 2.0. As far as I can tell, nothing
5 is vastly different in 2.0 other than bug fixes and a final soname change. As well,
6 we'd have to put the slotted versions header files into directories where all of the
7 packages that depend on expat won't know where to find them.
8
9 It's going to cause a mess of "why did my program stop working?" bugs, but it's
10 probably one of these things that should have been done a long time ago.
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