On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:27:07 +0200 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 06/10/2012 10:19 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:54:21 -0400 > > Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support > >> into different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an example; the > >> gtk2-based versions have -r2xx revision numbers and go in slot 2, > >> while the gtk3-based versions have -r3xx revision numbers and go in > >> slot 3). > > > > That is not what revisions are for. If you can't solve a problem > > properly using existing mechanisms, ask for new ones. > > I disagree. This is a proper solution, cause we use SLOTs and on top > of that revision numbers to make a difference for the ebuild name.
Uh, no. -rX, where X goes up by 1 each time, is used to indicate a revised ebuild (for example, when adding patches) where the upstream version remains the same. What you're trying to do is completely different. The fact that something happens to "work" is not enough to make it right. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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