On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000
Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > How often does this situation even come up?  If 9/10 times the
> > libraries are set up as maintainers expect them to be, it is
> > probably better to deal with the odd unnecessary rebuild until
> > somebody spots it, rather than going without support for slot
> > operator deps.
>
> With respect, "good enough" is not a very high standard to aim for.
> In my opinion, adding unnecessary subslot dependencies is no
> different to adding overly-wide dependencies.

There's a world of difference between a horrible breakage and an
occasional unnecessary compile. If users are concerned about how they
spend their CPU time, they're using the wrong distribution.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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