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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:11:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071211081130.0e04be5e@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071210194238.GC31432@supernova>

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:42:38 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I
> would like to understand the reasoning behind them. I don't
> understand how it would be different than any other SLOT, because
> they're already a string. USE_EXPAND doesn't allow for the
> possibility of multiple SLOTs installed at once, which is a feature I
> would like.

Conceptually a branch is not a slot (nor is it a version). Reusing an
existing package manager concept for a second, unrelated concept leads
to excessively complicated handling rules and a general nasty mess.

If there's desire for the package manager to be aware of branches, it
should be a separate proposal using a concept specifically designed
for that purpose. Branches exist without SCM, and SCM exists without
branches, and neither have anything to do with slots or use flags.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-09 16:01 [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] scm package version suffix Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-12-09 16:18 ` Josh Sled
2007-12-09 17:22   ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-12-09 17:52 ` Petteri Räty
2007-12-09 18:00   ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-12-09 18:45 ` Jan Kundrát
2007-12-09 18:57   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-12-10  4:31     ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-12-10  7:18       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-12-10  7:44         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-10  8:24           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-12-10  8:36             ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-12-10  8:44               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-12-11  1:12             ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-12-10 12:59           ` [gentoo-dev] " Robert Buchholz
2007-12-10 14:24             ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-10 15:14               ` Robert Buchholz
2007-12-10 19:44                 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-10 19:49                   ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-11  0:27                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-12-11 10:59                     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-11 11:03                     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-11  8:21                   ` Duncan
2007-12-11 11:06                     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-11 11:17                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-12-11 12:10                         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2007-12-10  8:26         ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson
2007-12-10  8:34           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-12-10  9:21           ` [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings Donnie Berkholz
2007-12-10  9:34             ` Santiago M. Mola
2007-12-10 19:42               ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-12-11  1:35                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-12-11  8:11                 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-12-11 11:46                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Santiago M. Mola
2007-12-11 17:56             ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-12-09 19:38   ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] scm package version suffix Ryan Hill

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