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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Evan Powers <powers.161@osu.edu>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] monolithic automake ebuilds?
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:44:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030203234434.599a7137.azarah@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301272102.20653.powers.161@osu.edu>

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:02:20 -0500
Evan Powers <powers.161@osu.edu> wrote:

> I'm curious, is there a reason the current automake ebuilds bundle
> several automake versions in one big clump rather than having several
> ebuilds using different SLOTs?
> 
> I'm aware that automake has undergone a number of incompatible changes
> since 1.5, and that a machine will almost certainly want several
> different automake versions installed. But this situation seems to be
> exactly the problem SLOTs were designed to solve.
> 
> Is there a reason it's not being done that way?
> 

Because it simplifies dependencies, and auto detection of what version
should be used ?


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-03 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-28  2:02 [gentoo-dev] monolithic automake ebuilds? Evan Powers
2003-01-28 14:05 ` Alain
2003-01-28 18:16   ` Evan Powers
2003-01-29 13:53     ` Dan Armak
2003-02-03 21:44 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]

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