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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New ebuild metadata variables for filtering of binary package soname dependencies (analogous to Fedora __provides_exclude and __requires_exclude)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:26:40
Message-Id: 20141229212626.2d25bfec@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New ebuild metadata variables for filtering of binary package soname dependencies (analogous to Fedora __provides_exclude and __requires_exclude) by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:46:47 -0800
2 > In order for Gentoo's binary package support to compete with that of
3 > binary distros, it would be useful to have some new ebuild metadata
4 > variables that would be used to customize filtering of automatically
5 > generated soname dependencies. For example, Fedora has
6 > __provides_exclude and __requires_exclude variables for this purpose
7 > [1].
8
9 Gentoo already has slots. Why not just use them properly?
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12 Ciaran McCreesh

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