Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:14:51
Message-Id: 74e3064c-bb6e-e234-bb21-2363a4c3fe7f@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan by "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov"
1 On 02/07/17 21:12, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
2 > By the way, it will also brake some proprietary games, that distributes via
3 > steam, humble, gog and so on.
4 >
5 > Some of them depends on shared lua and doesn't bundle it (instead, their
6 > installer calls apt (since they're doing games for ubuntu), but since we have
7 > no apt, we (gamerlay/games team) just writing proper DEPENDs, unpacking the
8 > content, and installing it.
9 >
10 > So, if shared lua will be dropped, we will either have a bunch of broken games
11 > or used to create some kludgy "lua-shared" custom ebuild, which is worse way
12 > of doing the things.
13 >
14 > So, I'm voting for status quo.
15 >
16 >
17 A custom games-lua eclass ... ?!
18
19 *runs from mgorny et al ....*

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