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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:24:23
Message-Id: 1091395641.9815.8.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs by Jason Stubbs
1 On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 04:01, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Sunday 01 August 2004 01:29, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 31 July 2004 04:32 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
4 > > > Well, the idea was that to create local USE flags of the form cc-${ARCH},
5 > > > have the gcc ebuilds use them to configure the cross compiler and also
6 > > > have them control the the slot. The only real difference to what there is
7 > > > now would be that portage would be able to forecast the SLOT correctly.
8 > >
9 > > so the user would do USE="cc-arm" to get an arm cross compiler ?
10 > >
11 > > and then in the ebuild we'd have to do something like:
12 > > SLOT="cc-arm? ( blah )" ?
13 > > how'd would we specify a default slot ?
14 >
15 > SLOT="!cc-arm? ( !cc-foo? ( !cc-bar? ( !cc-baz ( defaultslot ) ) )"
16 >
17
18 I really do not know why there hasn't been a '&&' and '||' logic
19 added yet? Will it really be that difficult to implement?
20
21 > Terrible, no? This is gone anyway.
22 >
23
24 What exactly do you mean by this?
25
26
27 Thanks,
28
29 --
30
31 Martin Schlemmer
32 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
33 Cape Town, South Africa

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