From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HnxBN-00068A-Fz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 13:35:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4FDXgHK026972; Tue, 15 May 2007 13:33:42 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4FDUJwc021338 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 13:30:19 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8918D34D for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03444-10 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:41:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A878D305 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:41:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:27:42 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0 Message-ID: <20070515142742.0ad8d1c3@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <200705150852.33154.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <38928.192.168.2.155.1179228617.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <200705150822.47886.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070515132747.121fbe8f@snowflake> <200705150852.33154.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_8NmyX9Ju7ho.AVgL//vnb6V"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: c2dd3ae7-e7fc-4a6e-9328-1a9f123bf14d X-Archives-Hash: 0ed1a6a9626b4fed28b0a674553164ec --Sig_8NmyX9Ju7ho.AVgL//vnb6V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 15 May 2007 08:52:32 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > preserve_old_lib is a horrible hack that shouldn't be being used at > > all. Don't push it as an alternative for proper slotting. >=20 > funny, i could say the same thing for your "proper slotting" >=20 > SLOTing is for API changes, not ABI changes SLOTs are for where a user may want to have multiple versions of the same package installed, for example where they require headers from two different versions or where they require shared objects from two different versions. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_8NmyX9Ju7ho.AVgL//vnb6V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSbVO96zL6DUtXhERAlLhAJsG+/OHMn5GJV7auS9jXd+pdYRT8QCgsmqO 4jX1aAldznCqlb90IPDJBl0= =ZrYP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_8NmyX9Ju7ho.AVgL//vnb6V-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list