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From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Multislot dependencies
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:21:37
Message-Id: g4bf7i$c19$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
2
3 > Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit :
4 >> <big_snip>
5 >>
6 >> Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o
7 >>
8 >> I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ...
9 >
10 > no, this is not the proper solution. Just consider how bad gtk/gtk2
11 > useflag was and that was with only 1 package with 2 slots. Now think
12 > about say db (berkeleydb) or gtkhtml (and I'm still probably overlooking
13 > the most important point).
14 Hehe, that'd be "funny".
15
16 With python it already gets messy:
17
18 RDEPEND="python2.4? ( !python2.5 ( !python2.6? ( dev-lang/python:2.4 )
19 python2.6? ( dev-lang/python:2.6 ) ) python2.5? ( !python2.6? (
20 dev-lang/python:2.5 ) python2.6? ( dev-lang/python:2.6) ) ) python2.6? (
21 dev-lang/python:2.6 )
22
23 or something like that...
24
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