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>>>>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> If you think that B isn't the empty set, it is trivial for you to |
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> demonstrate that this is the case. Simply give me a single example of |
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> a situation where: |
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> 1. It makes sense for a dep to use a new slot. |
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> 2. It makes sense for all of its reverse deps to automatically use |
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> the new slot without any further intervention by the individual |
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> reverse dep maintainers. |
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app-editors/emacs, to start with. |
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If you go through the list of about 400 packages that have more than |
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one slot (out of 17000 packages in the portage tree), I'm sure you'll |
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find many more that fall in B. On first glance, only a minor part of |
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these 400 seem to be libraries. |
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Ulrich |