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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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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