On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:38, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 19:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS > > > > no it isnt > > > > you're complaining about lack of a portage feature to track ABI's and > > urging the use of hacks in ebuilds to work around it > > While I agree that SLOT's are not perfect, they were created to solve this > problem too. If another working solution is found, that is ok for me too. > But I don't want to just find my binary stops working because some of its > libraries were removed from under it. Those libraries can coexist, so we > should keep them to give users an opportunity to upgrade their applications > to the new one. Only at that point do they become inappropriate.
so you preserve the lib with the preserve_old_lib* functions in eutils.eclass going around SLOTing random crap just adds overhead and makes using the package a huge pita ... it hurts a lot more than it helps -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
