On Sunday, February 13, 2011 15:16:58 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno dom, 13/02/2011 alle 14.22 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > > thus it's a lot more sane in the long term to assume that packages > > support the latest rather than patching everyone (and being forced to > > carry those custom patches indefinitely) to set the ceiling at the last > > "known" working version. > > Okay so what would you think of installing the headers and .pc files for > the "previous ABI" slotted packages? It would extend a bit more the > non-latest, but wouldn't stray far from what we've done up to now, and > we'd have a proof of concept to show upstream how to implements the > fallbacks... then we could probably talk some of them to do just that.
i'm not sure how this is really any different from an arbitrary number of parallel slots. -mike
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