From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:53:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360428819.26423.219.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51167BB1.50408@gentoo.org>
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El sáb, 09-02-2013 a las 18:39 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> On 09/02/13 18:36, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> > Eg. He wrote we should use 'media-libs/libpng:0=', but pre-subslots, the
> > :0 was often (incorrectly?) omitted.
>
> I've at least been adding :0 to many packages, openssl, tiff, libpng ...
>
> ... pretty much ever since the libpng 1.4 "upgrade problem" in the past
> that reminded me that if something is possible, users will do it
> people masked >=media-libs/libpng-1.4 and they only got the :1.2
> binary-only SLOT installed and ended up with no headers
> so having :0 forces the headers be there, and people don't get confused
> (at least if you read portage's output correctly)
>
>
>
Wouldn't be better to force (via repoman) people to set exact slot
(or :* if packages work for all slots) to prevent problems like this and
future breakages could appear when SLOT if bumped and rdeps are not
fixes to depend on needed slot?
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-09 12:15 [gentoo-dev] On the good usage of subslots Alexis Ballier
2013-02-09 12:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2013-02-09 12:46 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-09 12:52 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-09 14:09 ` Michael Palimaka
2013-02-11 0:45 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-11 15:40 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-02-09 13:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Samuli Suominen
2013-02-09 14:05 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2013-02-09 16:06 ` Zac Medico
2013-02-09 16:36 ` Michael Palimaka
2013-02-09 16:39 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-09 16:53 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2013-02-09 19:21 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2013-02-11 0:44 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-11 20:53 ` James Cloos
2013-02-11 21:13 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-02-11 21:21 ` Zac Medico
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