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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:36:18
Message-Id: 200512270231.08201.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tuesday 27 December 2005 01:46, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > You solve this either by SLOTting bar and making each bar SLOT use a
3 > SLOT dep upon KDE, or by using USE flags and [use]:slot deps.
4
5 It's not a that uncommon case and would lead to dozens, very likely (depending
6 on the future development of KDE and libs around it) hundreds of duplicated
7 ebuilds. In short: Your approach would result in a unmaintainable mess and is
8 not going to become reality.
9
10 > The proposed syntax is cleaner than shoving arbitrary stuff inside
11 > [bleh].
12
13 You know the disagree thingie. But it's not that I have to ride on it any
14 longer.
15
16
17 Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>