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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:04:54
Message-Id: CAEdQ38HtPnLPitZWb8FFtZs708qBM4ig9DgRHyHvJ7x4NeAUJA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:45:46 +0100
3 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:43:10 +0200
6 >> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
7 >> > > It treats -r300 as being newer than -r200, and so will treat "the
8 >> > > gtk3 version" or "the jruby version" as being newer versions of
9 >> > > "the gtk2 version" or "the ruby 1.8 version", just as it tries to
10 >> > > bring in a newer GCC and so on.
11 >> >
12 >> > And what problems is that causing for you?
13 >>
14 >> The problem is that there's no way of knowing that -r300 is not "a
15 >> newer version" than -r200
16
17 It's actually not though, is it? I think -r300 is simply the same
18 thing as -r200 except that it uses gtk3 instead of gtk2.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>