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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The gx86-multilib project needs your help! (+ roadmap reminder)
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 07:23:57
Message-Id: 1400138626.13920.18.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The gx86-multilib project needs your help! (+ roadmap reminder) by Ian Stakenvicius
1 El mar, 13-05-2014 a las 15:23 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió:
2 > On 13/05/14 03:19 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > El dom, 11-05-2014 a las 20:56 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...]
4 > >> 4. whenever possible, depend on the specific subslot that is
5 > >> known to provide SONAME equal to the required by your package,
6 > >> e.g. for libgcrypt.so.20 you depend on libgcrypt:0/20,
7 > > [...]
8 > >
9 > > Why is this needed? Thanks for the explanation :)
10 > >
11 > >
12 >
13 > I believe that this relates to cases of, by example, a 32bit
14 > pre-rolled binary package on amd64. I expect one could use a specific
15 > version range (upper/lower) for the dependency instead, so long as it
16 > is just as accurate.
17
18 Ah, ok :)