Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sub-slots (for EAPI 5)

[Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>]

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On 07-09-2012 12:03:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 09/07/2012 11:17 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > I guess real-life examples, more extensively described than you did
> > before, with exactly where it goes wrong, and how the situation is
> > improved would help.
> 
> Perhaps some of the greatest frustrations for Gentoo users stem from the
> lack of support for automatic rebuild of packages when necessary.
> Imagine how nice it would be if necessary rebuilds would automatically
> occur when appropriate, so that you wouldn't experience build failures
> that require you to manually intervene by running revdep-rebuild,
> perl-cleaner, or something like that. And there are other kinds of
> necessary rebuilds that don't trigger build failures, but lead to
> runtime failures that are noticed much later (like xorg driver failures
> after a major xorg-server update). Sub-slots can be used to solve the
> bulk of problems like these that our users have had to deal with manually.

I like that!  Kudos for making it work!

I just wonder what the heck that has to do with SLOT.
This discussion has been done before in this thread, and it somehow
settled.

> ... sub-slots are a relatively simple extension to slot-operator deps,
> and they are poised to greatly improve user experience (via automatic
> rebuilds) if they are included in EAPI 5.

And we want it.  But is it a good idea to add some feature that feels
like just a hack?


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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