Re: [gentoo-dev] some questions about using subslots and EAPI5

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:42:23 -0500
Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> wrote:
> Suppose I am upgrading an existing ebuild for dev-libs/libfoo-2.5 to
> EAPI5 and adding a subslot, e.g. SLOT="2/5". Should I then add
> "slotmove =dev-libs/libfoo-2.5 2 2/5" in profiles/updates? Or should
> it be "slotmove =dev-libs/libfoo-2.5 2/2 2/5" (since the PMS states
> that "When the sub-slot part is omitted from the SLOT definition, the
> package is considered to have an implicit sub-slot which is equal to
> the regular slot")? Will this update even do what one would
> intuitively expect it to do? Might it break older versions of portage
> on emerge --sync?

You can't put subslots in updates, since it's not EAPI controlled.

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Ciaran McCreesh