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On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 02:05 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> I've been thinking on a different method. With this method [3], we |
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> would keep using the <major>.<minor> slots (4.1, 4.2, etc) so we also |
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> wouldn't break the invariancy. We would allow users to select whether |
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> to have an FHS compliant install or not (the way to allow that still |
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> needs to be discussed) and we would set the prefix based on that. In |
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> case the user wants an FHS compliant install, the eclasses would block |
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> all kde packages on other slots - except 3.5 (uses other eclasses) and |
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> the live versions (for the above reason that it will always be |
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> installed under /usr/kde/<live-version>). |
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The big problem with that idea is that upgrading from one version to |
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another will be very painful as portage will yell with a million |
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blockers. |
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The only proper way to do it is to stop the /usr/kde madness for |
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everyone and just install everything in /usr like everyone else does, if |
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upstream wanted it to be parallel installable, they would have made it |
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that way (like gnome 1.x vs gnome 2.x). |
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Olivier Crête |
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