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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:22:29
Message-Id: 20120623201627.788d1dcb@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots by Alex Alexander
1 On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:32 +0300
2 Alex Alexander <wired@g.o> wrote:
3 > If it is a package without reverse dependencies, updating to the most
4 > recent slot and/or version should be expected unless the user has the
5 > slot defined in the world file.
6
7 That's the part that no longer holds. The package mangler now needs a
8 way of knowing that for a certain few packages, bringing in new slots
9 when not explicitly required is undesirable.
10
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12 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots Alex Alexander <wired@g.o>