Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting dev-lang/python into per-slot packages, starting with 3.14

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 12:03 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> 
> > IMHO this would abuse the package name for information that absolutely
> > doesn't belong there. It belongs in PV or SLOT.
> 
> > To me it seems that you try to work around a problem (greedy upgrade
> > behaviour) that should really be solved in the package manager.
> 
> How about introducing something like PROPERTIES="separate-slot" instead,
> which would instruct the PM to treat the slot like a separate package?
> 

Isn't it ironic that I didn't manage to finish sending my reply about
slots being abused and things bent so hard to make them fit slots,
and you've already managed to propose adding more complexity in order to
bend things even more into the wrong solution?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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