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On 06/03/16 18:18, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> We should definitely include SLOTs in the allowed syntax. |
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> Why? What's their use? In fact, does <pkg/> have any use? Because as I |
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> see it, it's just some fancy feature that could turn package name into |
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> link to packages.gentoo.org and nothing more... |
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Using SLOTs you have more precision in what you are writing. There are |
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quite a number of packages where SLOTs differ a lot, e.g. grub. So |
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clearly specifying a SLOT make sense to me. |
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Take this example |
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<use> |
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<flag name="grub2">Install theme for <pkg>sys-boot/grub:2</pkg></flag> |
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</use> |
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Dropping the SLOT here doesn't make sense, as the content of the package |
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with USE=grub2 won't work for grub-1. |
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I can assume there are a number of packages where file formats or such |
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changed between SLOTs, so it makes sense to specify it. |
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