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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:27:42 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 08:52:32 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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


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