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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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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-09 16:53 UTC|newest]

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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