Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 05:39 AM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and >> avoids duplicating package-wide information (meaning of >> slot/subslot) in every single ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-13 Thread Manuel RĂ¼ger
On 13.10.2015 11:39, hasufell wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and avoids >> duplicating package-wide information (meaning of slot/subslot) in every >> single ebuild. >> > > Yeah, the only thing that I wasn't sure a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-13 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:39:04 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and avoids > > duplicating package-wide information (meaning of slot/subslot) in > > every single ebuild. > > > > Yeah, the only t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-13 Thread hasufell
On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and avoids > duplicating package-wide information (meaning of slot/subslot) in every > single ebuild. > Yeah, the only thing that I wasn't sure about is the subslots part. With the proposed p

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-13 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:11:44 +0800 Ian Delaney wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:01:15 +0200 > hasufell wrote: > > > On 10/12/2015 07:49 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:19:33 +0200 > > > Julian Ospald wrote: > > > > > >> There seems to be some general confusion about

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread NP-Hardass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:49:11 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > There seems to be some general confusion about specific package SLOTs > and their meaning, since there can be several naming schemes applied > and documentation is either non-existent

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Ian Delaney
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:01:15 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 10/12/2015 07:49 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:19:33 +0200 > > Julian Ospald wrote: > > > >> There seems to be some general confusion about specific package > >> SLOTs and their meaning, since there can be several na

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2015, 19:19:33 schrieb Julian Ospald: > An example use case for media-libs/libpng would be: > > For building against. This is the only slot > that provides headers and command line tools. > For binary compatibility, provides > libpng12.so.0. For binary compat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:01:15 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 10/12/2015 07:49 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:19:33 +0200 > > Julian Ospald wrote: > > > >> There seems to be some general confusion about specific package > >> SLOTs and their meaning, since there can be several

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread hasufell
On 10/12/2015 07:49 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:19:33 +0200 > Julian Ospald wrote: > >> There seems to be some general confusion about specific package SLOTs >> and their meaning, since there can be several naming schemes applied >> and documentation is either non-existent

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:19:33 +0200 Julian Ospald wrote: > There seems to be some general confusion about specific package SLOTs > and their meaning, since there can be several naming schemes applied > and documentation is either non-existent or is inside the ebuild via > comments. > Because of th

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Julian Ospald
There seems to be some general confusion about specific package SLOTs and their meaning, since there can be several naming schemes applied and documentation is either non-existent or is inside the ebuild via comments. Because of that it should be part of metadata.xml. An example use case for media