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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Extend slot-operator-deps with sub-slot support
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:48:09
Message-Id: 20525.59660.197082.215568@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Extend slot-operator-deps with sub-slot support by Zac Medico
1 >>>>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Zac Medico wrote:
2
3 >>> The attached patch extends the slot-operator-deps specification to
4 >>> include sub-slot support (as it's implemented in Portage with EAPI
5 >>> 4-slot-abi). Some links for reference:
6 >>>
7 >>> http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/06/23/automatic-rebuilds-with-experimental-eapi-4-slot-abi/
8 >>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi-4-slot-abi
9 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424429
10 >>
11 >> Can we not use the term "reverse dependencies" please? It's horribly
12 >> ambiguous.
13
14 > Yes, I've changed it to say "dependent packages" instead. I've also
15 > removed the redundant sub-slot-names section, as suggested by Ulrich
16 > on irc.
17
18 Committed to eapi-5 branch, with two changes:
19 - I've added another column "Supports sub-slots?" to tab:slot-deps-table.
20 - The "sub-slot" label was defined twice (and LaTeX complained about
21 it, so I've removed one of the definitions.
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23 <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=5d6749ac9e5ddc5b1daaad7737b65fa81c6ece47>
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25 Ulrich