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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 01:58:44
Message-Id: 200408011101.53788.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sunday 01 August 2004 01:29, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Saturday 31 July 2004 04:32 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > Well, the idea was that to create local USE flags of the form cc-${ARCH},
4 > > have the gcc ebuilds use them to configure the cross compiler and also
5 > > have them control the the slot. The only real difference to what there is
6 > > now would be that portage would be able to forecast the SLOT correctly.
7 >
8 > so the user would do USE="cc-arm" to get an arm cross compiler ?
9 >
10 > and then in the ebuild we'd have to do something like:
11 > SLOT="cc-arm? ( blah )" ?
12 > how'd would we specify a default slot ?
13
14 SLOT="!cc-arm? ( !cc-foo? ( !cc-bar? ( !cc-baz ( defaultslot ) ) )"
15
16 Terrible, no? This is gone anyway.
17
18 Regards,
19 Jason Stubbs
20
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>