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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:06:50
Message-Id: 516EF2B2.5000408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autoconf now supports multislots by Michael Mol
1 Michael Mol schrieb:
2 >> But it's massively illegal and doesn't work correctly in Portage.
3 >>
4 >
5 > For the benefit of those of us (well, me) not sufficiently versed in PMS
6 > et al to be able to immediately deduce why it's illegal and why it
7 > wouldn't work correctly in Portage, could you please elucidate?
8
9 It's illegal because it calls "use" in global scope and modifies SLOT based
10 on the result.
11 It is not correctly handled by portage, as you can test by
12 # USE="multislot" emerge -pv gcc:4.6.3
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14
15 Best regards,
16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn