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El sáb, 09-02-2013 a las 18:39 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: |
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> On 09/02/13 18:36, Michael Palimaka wrote: |
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> > Eg. He wrote we should use 'media-libs/libpng:0=', but pre-subslots, the |
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> > :0 was often (incorrectly?) omitted. |
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> I've at least been adding :0 to many packages, openssl, tiff, libpng ... |
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> ... pretty much ever since the libpng 1.4 "upgrade problem" in the past |
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> that reminded me that if something is possible, users will do it |
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> people masked >=media-libs/libpng-1.4 and they only got the :1.2 |
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> binary-only SLOT installed and ended up with no headers |
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> so having :0 forces the headers be there, and people don't get confused |
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> (at least if you read portage's output correctly) |
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Wouldn't be better to force (via repoman) people to set exact slot |
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(or :* if packages work for all slots) to prevent problems like this and |
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future breakages could appear when SLOT if bumped and rdeps are not |
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fixes to depend on needed slot? |
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