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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:14:07
Message-Id: 200512271410.17921.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tuesday 27 December 2005 04:07, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > But it's not binary compatible between KDE slots. So, once we
3 > have :slot dependencies, you should link to a specific :slot (possibly
4 > controlled via USE). It's like packages that can use either gtk or gtk2
5 > -- this has to be handled via a USE flag rather than linking against
6 > whichever happens to be there.
7
8 Forget it. Not maintainable, doesn't make any sense at all and won't happen.
9 And it's not like gtk1/gtk2. An application working with KDE 3.0 works as
10 fine with KDE 3.5. gtk1/gtk2 is comparable to KDE 3.x/KDE 4.x.
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13 Carsten