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On 12/29/2014 01:26 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:46:47 -0800 |
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>> In order for Gentoo's binary package support to compete with that of |
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>> binary distros, it would be useful to have some new ebuild metadata |
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>> variables that would be used to customize filtering of automatically |
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>> generated soname dependencies. For example, Fedora has |
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>> __provides_exclude and __requires_exclude variables for this purpose |
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>> [1]. |
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> Gentoo already has slots. Why not just use them properly? |
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That's the same thing you said when I proposed sub-slot support, and I |
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think the majority agrees that sub-slots are very useful and practical. |
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Also, please see 3 major advantages of REQUIRES/PROVIDES soname |
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dependencies that I enumerated in my response to Matthias Maier [1]. |
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These reasons show that REQUIRES/PROVIDES data is extremely useful for |
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plenty of cases that are not currently covered by slot-operator |
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dependencies (and will not be covered for the foreseeable future). |
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/94145/focus=94149 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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