From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SiVHy-0001lZ-9g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:42:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EED4421C0B0; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f195.google.com (mail-we0-f195.google.com [74.125.82.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E7CE0D3E for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:41:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werf13 with SMTP id f13so526258wer.10 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=QFJL8yaoMP3EnIT4Ly5t2tW80jebUHlIUV5SHX5WYgo=; b=GqV+QTErO+pzbV4fmkbmaJX9sfcpM26b6LMxeqhU4Yhefz3p/GibiYt4cgNK1tufTs uSxsN84XJzQUdlw/oEDjU0ybXKmozPT40wl8dXfRHc5YFMtDAO/U8wl8EJ922c+Zl721 sBrDsiiFXML4VconRaoNtUcSy4mTi3TdqqS6cUmjEc39qOySKCZ+Gvq3ILc+V3H8vNHp NAzkdW1SDhgsbAi8e9K5KPyGpjm9C5hr/NjZh6Ix8uFoKU7uyJde26X6yh8/Pq4XMAck /ErZQKhKBsMdoqXvHhHe1Jc9+xLnE6QXiOzPF63zGpe2LhS72Ju+Z6w3KiMo1xjUsvA9 khXg== Received: by 10.216.213.143 with SMTP id a15mr3567996wep.156.1340476897476; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d3sm12665100wiz.9.2012.06.23.11.41.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:37:46 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots Message-ID: <20120623193746.225fcde9@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20120623142143.631d7ebf@googlemail.com> <4FE5EB23.5040600@gentoo.org> <20120623171704.4f24cba6@googlemail.com> <4FE5F31E.80608@gentoo.org> <20120623175324.038ca62e@googlemail.com> <1340472237.5979.75.camel@belkin4> <20120623183053.6d432605@googlemail.com> <1340473390.5979.76.camel@belkin4> <20120623184546.56f49e58@googlemail.com> <20120623195413.37fd6507@pomiocik.lan> <20120623185642.287880b7@googlemail.com> <20120623200903.3fb8b85b@pomiocik.lan> <20120623190638.6d3c2ff1@googlemail.com> <20120623202313.175214fb@pomiocik.lan> <20120623192237.6bba7677@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Una9mYXx6=Mv0LdDIRkS1yE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 261b7e73-4174-42ea-95c5-b7ec5320e773 X-Archives-Hash: 93d4163c3eff77ac62af71f2ea4fd700 --Sig_/Una9mYXx6=Mv0LdDIRkS1yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:35:47 +0300 Alex Alexander wrote: > > The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a "better" > > version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a "better" version > > than 1.1-r300. Indicating packages where this kind of strangeness > > happens allows manglers to know that things that are usually true > > about the relationship between slots and versions no longer hold, > > and that in these specific cases it should consider slots to be > > heavily independent. >=20 > You already have this info, it's called a "slot dependency". It's not a property of individual packages that happen to depend upon the problematic package. The property holds or not for a package regardless of whether anything depends upon it. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/Una9mYXx6=Mv0LdDIRkS1yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/mDP0ACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGSLACgrujO27KaPxcNGpv7Z6tCviIH g20AoN5UA0g3ibTxIHuxZ9G1lnkeV4Xf =klHD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Una9mYXx6=Mv0LdDIRkS1yE--