On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:10:46 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dnia 2013-08-05, o godz. 11:50:38 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > > > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:06:33 +0300 > > Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > The plan is to change SLOT of virtual/jpeg from "0" to eg. "0/1" > > > after next SONAME change in the default of the virtual, so it's > > > useful to have everything depend on virtual/jpeg:0= ready, to get > > > the benefits of the subslot. > > > > last I heard subslots on virtuals didnt work that well: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449094 > > > > and this plan is broken: changing the subslot on the virtual will > > trigger the rebuilds but will likely not ensure all the providers > > have changed soname, so there is a case of completely useless > > rebuilds. > > > > I would rather wait for the above bug to be fixed and have a proper > > way to handle subslots through virtuals than converting packages > > to := depend on the virtual. > > We can simply have multiple virtual versions, each depending > on the proper jpeg & jpeg-turbo versions. > you can do it that way, yes. what will you do when jpeg 10 is out or when libjpeg-turbo changes its abi ? wait for each provider to have a release that changes the abi ? this doesnt sound sane
