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On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 20:22, foser wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 10:50 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: |
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> > > Isn't that the purpose of SLOTs? |
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> > Yes, and that's how some of the gcc's are done. Unfortunately, slots seem |
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> > to require developer resources to make work, and therefore aren't done |
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> > on a consistent basis. I.e. not all of the gcc's are slot-enabled, let |
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> > alone KDE or Gnome or mozilla, etc. |
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> Well, that's not really the purpose, SLOTs were meant to install |
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> packages that are _upstream_ parallel installable. Afaik SLOTting in |
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> Gentoo is consistent with most upstream releases. |
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Yes, but I will define it more as a way to support new releases |
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that breaks binary compatibility. This definition should envelope |
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kde, gnome, gcc, etc ... Note that for things like kde and gcc for |
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instance (gnome does it properly - or more so) it is not 100% |
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supported upstream. |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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