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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:28:45
Message-Id: 20120907192157.6b8a75ca@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5) by Fabian Groffen
1 On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:17:17 +0200
2 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
3 > Eh, no. Now it just always breaks when you perform a downgrade, and
4 > revdev-rebuild or @preserved-libs won't help you. I prefer that you
5 > give best practices how to use sub-slots to make Portage also able to
6 > do a recompile of bar when libfnord in the same SLOT gets downgraded.
7 > (Because minors are used for compatible changes -- additions -- to the
8 > ABI.)
9
10 Downgrades aren't covered by sub-slots, slots, regular dependencies,
11 libtool, or anything else.
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh

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