Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2013-09-26, o godz. 15:15:38
Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> napisał(a):

> Thus I suggest declaring a policy:
>
> ""
> Any library bump that would trigger revdep-rebuild should be done with
> the affected library package.mask'ed until all its consumers have been
> properly bumped to subslot-aware versions.
> ""
>
> (The unmasking of the library then triggers a "migration" to happy
> portage updates that don't need human supervision)

How do we handle packages which install multiple libraries? I'm afraid
forcing such a policy and/or hurrying developers to adapt will only
cause more of poppler-like issues to occur.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny