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 <gentoo-dev+bounces-23740-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Hnxmw-0000Kf-MM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:14:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4FEBhBb007472; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:11:43 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 l4FE9dkp005145 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:09:40 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730F48D3F8 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:20:56 +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 03889-10 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:20:51 +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 4716F8D305 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:20:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:07:02 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0 Message-ID: <20070515150702.3f3058e8@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <4649BD5D.5030806@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> <20070515142742.0ad8d1c3@snowflake> <4649BD5D.5030806@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_1aPMuZdV.tdDjwQ38gt7vmW; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: bbd1db9c-fba2-4d16-bc4a-11437713173c X-Archives-Hash: ff1c93926ce4b3395c7f0f1a633d3da2 --Sig_1aPMuZdV.tdDjwQ38gt7vmW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:02:05 +0300 Petteri R=C3=A4ty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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 > And then you suggest we have support code to make the headers not > collide? I think time would be better spent improving the package > manager[s] instead of hacks like this. It is not, in general, a package manager solvable solution. In the real world many packages have runtime dependencies that are not .so files. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_1aPMuZdV.tdDjwQ38gt7vmW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSb6G96zL6DUtXhERAkDAAJ9Hi16DkzphqxifrCnUQm64Dx2oUwCfQiMk Lo/d8xwWw9kQ3I+NmT1pax8= =6uRB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_1aPMuZdV.tdDjwQ38gt7vmW-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list