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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for using slot and sub-slot dependencies
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:11:19
Message-Id: 525E906D.2060901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for using slot and sub-slot dependencies by "Michał Górny"
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4 On 10/16/2013 02:59 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > -- when in doubt -- ask the maintainer.
6 >
7
8 We should just require maintainers to document what their slots and
9 subslots are for in the ebuild.
10
11 >
12 > 4. You *can not* trust portage's --dynamic-deps anymore.
13 >
14 > This one is fairly important. In the past, we often assumed that
15 > portage will 'update' deps from ebuilds automatically. This is no
16 > longer correct if sub-slots are used -- since portage simply can't
17 > know which sub-slot of the dependency was used to build the
18 > package.
19
20 so we should always revbump when introducing subslots?
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