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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:25:03
Message-Id: 45BC2525.1040502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > Danny van Dyk napsal(a):
3 >> which breaks the metadata cache. Any objections to change it
4 >> to
5 >>
6 >> SLOT=0
7 >
8 > As noted on the relevant bug [1], the eclass is a complete no-op and
9 > nothing can be installed using this eclass (has been so for quite some
10 > time). Fixing it doesn't make sense, making it dummy or even removing it
11 > (plus the unusable single ebuild which inherits it) does.
12 >
13 >
14 > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162960
15 >
16
17 And we already told you, removing it isn't a good solution (even if it
18 technically works within the bounds of the current api). The bug is
19 that the SLOT invalidates cache entries and it's trivial to fix.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] matrox.eclass Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>