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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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>> A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild |
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>> and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not |
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>> viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but not well |
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>> supported by portage and should be used only in particular situations. |
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> [snip] |
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>> example: |
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>> mysql-4.1.16-r[0..49] Need "+multislot" |
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>> mysql-4.1.16-r[50..99] Need "-multislot" |
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>> mysql-5.1.18-r[0..49] Need "+multislot" |
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>> mysql-5.1.18-r[50..99] Need "-multislot" |
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> NAK. Do not go the route of ranged revisions for specific features. |
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> If you go with multislot, you must make it work in ALL revisions. |
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> One of the reasons why is that portage does not support a limited |
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> ranged dep properly last I checked, so this is hard for everybody to |
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> deal with. |
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Robin, Jakub, |
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I can see your points here, for the moment I will left things as is, |
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still open to alternatives. |
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Francesco |
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