Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting)
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:27:50
Message-Id: 20130406162733.1f38fb50@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting) by Mike Gilbert
1 On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:13:36 -0400
2 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
3 > I'm just not sure how the package managers like an in-place EAPI
4 > change. If it works, great.
5
6 If you don't revbump when going from an EAPI that doesn't have subslots
7 to one that does, and then people start using subslot deps upon that
8 package, it gets pretty icky. So I would highly encourage always
9 revbumping at least when going to EAPI 5.
10
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12 Ciaran McCreesh

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