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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:47:42
Message-Id: 20051227014238.GG5809@nightcrawler.e-centre.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:31:02AM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 01:46, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > You solve this either by SLOTting bar and making each bar SLOT use a
4 > > SLOT dep upon KDE, or by using USE flags and [use]:slot deps.
5 >
6 > It's not a that uncommon case and would lead to dozens, very likely (depending
7 > on the future development of KDE and libs around it) hundreds of duplicated
8 > ebuilds. In short: Your approach would result in a unmaintainable mess and is
9 > not going to become reality.
10
11 Well, we all seem to be missing the issue, so please spell it out
12 clearly (rather then "it's going to get bad"). Didn't grok it from
13 the previous email, so spell it out please :)
14
15 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>