Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www Being Retired

[Stuart Herbert]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:10, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> If there's a way to get portage to work better without this kind of
> splitting, I'd much rather see that happen. Perhaps SLOTting by what
> it's built for (apache-1/2)? I'm not real clear on the current
> situation.

SLOTing is great when (say) verison 1.2 of a package works with both apache 
and apache2, but it's not a complete solution when you need version 1.2 for 
apache, but version 2.2 for apache2.

We can tell users to use /etc/portage/package.mask, but I want to get this 
stuff working automatically, without the user having to do anything.

> Splitting in this way really goes against the whole idea of portage
> allowing us to integrate versioned packages into one using a combination
> of USE flags, SLOTs and other tools.

I'm open to better suggestions.

Best regards,
Stu
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