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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:20:32 -0700 |
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ignoring Vapier's tirade against ciaranm there, we need the |
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> xDEPEND-syntax for SLOTS as the real solution, however that still |
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> wouldn't resolve the portion that has CTARGET as part of the SLOT, |
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> since metadata generated on the rsyncmaster with a different CTARGET |
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> wouldn't match on the clients. |
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Are there significant USE cases for conditionals in SLOT that aren't |
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related to multislot and multiple ABIs? (the whole DEPEND syntax in |
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SLOT doesn't make sense) |
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For allowing multiple ABIs for a package to be installed I'm not |
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convinced that using SLOT is the right solution, this should probably |
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be considered as part of a more general multilib / cross-compile |
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support (there have been different designs for that). |
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And maybe in the (distant) future we can even add real multislot support |
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(same version of a package installed in multiple slots), but that's |
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going to need _major_ vdb and portage API changes first. |
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Marius |
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