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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:51:51
Message-Id: 20090518175142.5d56abc8@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries by Alex Alexander
1 On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:42:02 +0300
2 Alex Alexander <alex.alexander@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > >    x11-libs/split-qt[gui][xmlpatterns]
4 > >
5 > > and then have x11-libs/split-qt's deps be like:
6 > >
7 > >    gui? ( ~x11-libs/qt-gui-${PV} )
8 >
9 > how would that solve a user's "emerge -av1 qt-core" when a new Qt
10 > version becomes available?
11
12 It wouldn't, although it would be fixed as soon as someone tried to
13 install a package with a Qt dep.
14
15 Dependencies the way they are now aren't really expressive enough to
16 handle what you're after -- split packages are considered unrelated.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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