Enrico Weigelt wrote:
What sort of problems? An example backing up your claims would be very nice.
+ Additional complexity (slotting) is necessary, so additional
changes of bugs.
Oh please, this is so lame. That feature has been in existance for long enough
to be proven useful and not faulty. The "higher probability of problems" is
really not the best argument when discussing features that have been around for
an incredible long time.
+ Package maintainers have to both take care of slots *and*
version number *ranges*
"taking care" takes you one line. I already gave you both dependency strings.
Now guess what: If they were two packages, it would take you one line too! OMG!
+ Different packages are treated as equal, produces confusion
Aside from that guy who opened bug 143063 [1] I have yet to see anybody who got
confused by this behaviour.
So, why don't you consider libxml and libxml2 equal packages ?
Because that's the way upstream names them.
As said: you have to take care of version *ranges*.
Adds additional complexity.
BTW: how do you enforce an minimum gtk1 version ?
You know that this wouldn't even make sense, as - you've pointed it out so many
times - the API is incompatible.
So, I'm asking you one last time: Do you have any actual good reasons to not
package things the way upstream does it?
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143063
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Simon Stelling
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