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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:11:31
Message-Id: 20120623190638.6d3c2ff1@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > > That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now being
4 > > used for something that is exactly the same version as -r200.
5 >
6 > Did you look at SONAME?
7
8 Look at SONAME before deciding what package to install? Kindly explain
9 how that works.
10
11 > > > > and that the jruby implementation is not "a
12 > > > > newer version" than the ruby 1.8 implementation.
13 > > >
14 > > > And that's another thing which is ugly and should be replaced by
15 > > > something sane rather than worked around.
16 > >
17 > > I agree. But until that happens, which probably isn't going to be
18 > > anytime soon, we need to know where something weird is happening,
19 > > and that's what this proposal provides.
20 >
21 > Yes, let's introduce some random 'funky' word for a single ebuild.
22 > Or.. since it's just a single package, maybe you would just add an
23 > ignore list to paludis.
24
25 a) it's not a single package, and b) ignore lists in a package manager
26 is a terrible idea.
27
28 --
29 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>