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 1SiVCs-0000nQ-Gh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:37:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67ED221C09A; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D0C21C06C for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:35:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (77-255-3-88.adsl.inetia.pl [77.255.3.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BE88C1B4024; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:37:00 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots Message-ID: <20120623203700.3c3fe2a0@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <20120623192237.6bba7677@googlemail.com> 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> Organization: Gentoo 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-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/0tsNF9FGGUC60MKs94+.sDl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ab150264-2f8a-43dd-88f2-e7a35462d0e2 X-Archives-Hash: bd4e8e9724a6cff8d58652faceb447c3 --Sig_/0tsNF9FGGUC60MKs94+.sDl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:22:37 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 > > > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > > > > That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now > > > > > being used for something that is exactly the same version as > > > > > -r200. > > > >=20 > > > > Did you look at SONAME? > > >=20 > > > Look at SONAME before deciding what package to install? Kindly > > > explain how that works. > >=20 > > I'm just saying that these are two different versions of the > > package. If you want GTK+3, you take the newer one. If you want > > GTK+2 compat, you take the older slot. What's wrong with that? >=20 > 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. It *is* a 'better' version, much like gtk+-3.* is 'better' than gtk+-2.*. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/0tsNF9FGGUC60MKs94+.sDl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk/mDMwACgkQfXuS5UK5QB3odgP/XHiD+fflat5ND1+GNCzxGLMN ZIXREh3ZwhgxWBpDfJvwmRw79brJxMbAfHst0r1yxrSjl0teBcGhYfdIkJh2VHc3 B7Ozi75JNr5d1bj+pyoJdG81YHixeULK0VKpFreMt2e/UrOOhq0Nov8UvBTfF3MS rQKeUnFp/08owgLc9uc= =zpIs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0tsNF9FGGUC60MKs94+.sDl--