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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:17:46
Message-Id: 45129E58.8090701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday 21 September 2006 07:59, Brian Harring wrote:
3 >> Why have the explicit var? Because 0.9.7a through 0.9.7c may all be
4 >> compatible, but 0.9.7d isn't. If you force an automatic algo that
5 >> tries to (effectively) guess, you get a lot of rebuilds through a,b,c,
6 >> end result being folks likely update less because it becomes a bigger
7 >> pain in the ass.
8 >
9 > if it isnt compatible then it shouldnt have the same SONAME, simple as
10 > that ... that is after all the point of encoding the ABI version number into
11 > the SONAME
12 >
13 > forcing devs to maintain a manual var which is basically duplicating the
14 > SONAME smells like maintenance nightmare
15
16 Not adding it into the ebuild means that it's impossible to show in
17 advance what packages will actually be installed, because you don't know
18 whether the sover will bump.
19
20 Thanks,
21 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>