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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:54:32 +0100 |
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> Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> One thing that puzzles me is I never see .so versioning mentioned, eg |
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>> libc.so.5 vs .6 linking to latest providing specified ABI. |
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> Unix already has mechanisms for dealing with that. |
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Yes, that was my point. |
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> All the package |
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> manager needs to make use of that is := slot dependencies, which you |
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> can find documented in PMS for kdebuild-1. But since I invented them, |
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> I'm looking forward to see what reason you can cook up for disliking it. |
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Fwiw I liked the := dep specification, just like I liked labelled deps. I |
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don't see those as 'inventions' ofc, since they merely duplicate what |
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others have been doing for years, but feel free to think of yourself as the |
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great innovator, toiling away in your lab, misunderstood by the unwashed |
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masses (one day they'll be sorry..) And you wonder that I considered your |
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prior post some sort of claim? |
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/me suddenly understands why so many Gentoo devs won't use gmane. |
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