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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:40:20 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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| > gentoo-sources24 |
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| > gentoo-sources26 |
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| I don't have a problem with this, but the dependancy stuff might not |
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| work out properly for some odd kernel-based userspace packages. |
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| Anyone object to this? |
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Well, it's pretty nasty... Part of the idea of SLOTs is that we never |
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need to include version numbers in packages... In fact our docs [1] even |
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say: |
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> Most distributions and ports systems tend to have a "freetype" package |
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> for freetype 1.x and "freetype2" for 2.x. We consider this approach a |
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> sign of a fundamentally broken package management system. |
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Do we really want to admit that our package manager is broken? |
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[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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