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I think that precedent has already been set with linux26-headers |
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unfortunately. |
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-Steve |
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:40:20 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > gentoo-sources24 |
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> | > gentoo-sources26 |
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> | I don't have a problem with this, but the dependancy stuff might not |
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> | work out properly for some odd kernel-based userspace packages. |
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> | Anyone object to this? |
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> Well, it's pretty nasty... Part of the idea of SLOTs is that we never |
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> need to include version numbers in packages... In fact our docs [1] even |
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> say: |
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>>Most distributions and ports systems tend to have a "freetype" package |
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>>for freetype 1.x and "freetype2" for 2.x. We consider this approach a |
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>>sign of a fundamentally broken package management system. |
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> Do we really want to admit that our package manager is broken? |
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> [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml |
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