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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:10:31 +0100 |
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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote: |
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> Le mardi 11 février 2014 à 19:33 -0500, Chris Reffett a écrit : |
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> > This doesn't make sense to me at all. I can't see why slotted |
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> > libraries can't just use USE flags to specify what toolkit they're |
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> > built against, just like any other package in the tree (so, for |
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> > example, a package that needs webkit-gtk built against gtk3 would |
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> > depend on webkit-gtk[gtk3] instead of webkit-gtk:3). I'm well aware |
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> > that there could be limitations I'm unaware of (maybe the package only |
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> > can build one at a time?), but this is how it looks to me. By |
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> > switching to versioned gtk flags, this kills two birds with one stone: |
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> > it makes it obvious to the end user which version they're trying to |
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> > build their package against, and it gets rid of the need for (ab)using |
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> > revision numbers to implement slots like that. |
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> And here comes the "version abuse" troll again. This discussion was |
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> settled months ago by exhaustion so please do not try to put some |
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> gasoline on it. |
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Using arbitrary revision numbers to make up for the fact that you can't |
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install multiple SLOTs of the same version of a package is a fucking |
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travesty. |
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Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk |
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gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org |
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