On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:10:31 +0100 Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 11 février 2014 à 19:33 -0500, Chris Reffett a écrit : > > This doesn't make sense to me at all. I can't see why slotted > > libraries can't just use USE flags to specify what toolkit they're > > built against, just like any other package in the tree (so, for > > example, a package that needs webkit-gtk built against gtk3 would > > depend on webkit-gtk[gtk3] instead of webkit-gtk:3). I'm well aware > > that there could be limitations I'm unaware of (maybe the package only > > can build one at a time?), but this is how it looks to me. By > > switching to versioned gtk flags, this kills two birds with one stone: > > it makes it obvious to the end user which version they're trying to > > build their package against, and it gets rid of the need for (ab)using > > revision numbers to implement slots like that. > > And here comes the "version abuse" troll again. This discussion was > settled months ago by exhaustion so please do not try to put some > gasoline on it. Using arbitrary revision numbers to make up for the fact that you can't install multiple SLOTs of the same version of a package is a fucking travesty. -- Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org 47C3 6D62 4864 0E49 8E9E 7F92 ED38 BD49 957A 8463
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