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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:22:36PM +0200, foser wrote: |
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> You can redefine SLOT to do stow like stuff (afaik KDE in Gentoo does |
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> this with different qt minor versions (?) & gcc), but I'm actually not a |
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> big fan of that sort of constructions that do not comply with upstream |
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> intent for no-good reasons : it's just great to have every mozilla |
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> release on your system at the same time, but it serves no purpose (to |
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> get back to your example). Adding global support for this will probably |
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> lead to weird problems concerning libversion mismatching etc. . |
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It does serve a purpose. It allows for painless testing of bleeding edge |
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software without completely giving up your current setup. |
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Library versions already have a versioning system and can coexist, so I |
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didn't envision stow being used much for pure libraries. Stuff like |
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running XFree86 and xorg would be nice, though. |
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- Chris |
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