Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-07-01 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, some of you might still remember what I said about gtk and > slots long time ago. Just to summarize my point: > > * the use of slots should be MINIMIZED. IMHO, the kernel is one > of the few valid uses, gtk is NOT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : > > > > > > Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o > > > > I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... > > no, this is not the pro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-30 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : > > > Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o > > I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... no, this is not the proper solution. Just consider how bad gtk/gtk2 useflag was and that was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:41:17 +0200 Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > := only makes sense when something is both a DEPEND and an RDEPEND. > > Actual behaviour, for Paludis, is that it rewrites := deps to :=blah > > when writing to VDB any time it can, and leaves anything it can't > > as

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Tiziano Müller
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:57:11 +0200 > Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I miss two things here: >> a) What happens in case of DEPEND="", RDEPEND=">=cat/bar-2:=" ? Is >> that defined? If yes, what does it mean? If not, what shall be the >> package managers behavio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Tiziano Müller schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Tiziano Müller schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Tiziano Müller schrieb: Hi everyone I'd like to bring bug #229521 to your attention and see whether we can come up with a solution for it. The problem: A package "foo" depends on a slotted pa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Tiziano Müller
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: > Tiziano Müller schrieb: >> Bernd Steinhauser wrote: >> >>> Tiziano Müller schrieb: Hi everyone I'd like to bring bug #229521 to your attention and see whether we can come up with a solution for it. The problem: A package "foo" depends