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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:12:44
Message-Id: 20051227030816.GL5809@nightcrawler.e-centre.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:54:38AM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 03:40, Brian Harring wrote:
3 > > The version of digikam being merged requires slot=3.5- it should be
4 > > depending on libk* slot=3.5, also, no?
5 >
6 > No! It (and also its dependencies) can be built against each 3.x slot.
7 >
8 > > As long as the information is represented dependency wise, portage
9 > > should be able to handle it fine. Just need to have that info there.
10 >
11 > It can't be handled dependency wise, because what is interesting is against
12 > which KDE version the relevant ebuilds are actually installed.
13
14 So note the comment in the email you are responding to about locking
15 down the used dep/rdeps for an install.
16
17 Via that, could lock down the slot it was compiled against. Bit more
18 to it then that, but the concerns your raising *again* are not
19 use/slot based, your pointing at other portage faults (thus please
20 seperate those concerns from use/slot).
21
22 ~harring

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>