Re: [gentoo-dev] On the good usage of subslots

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 20:21:56 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:15:03 -0300
> Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > I hope this will be trivial to most of you but after seeing bug
> > #455900 and the vast majority of developers not even thinking twice
> > before sedding their dep strings, I believe this needs some
> > attention.
> 
> As a note for those who get irritated with those webkit-gtk:
> 
>        --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps < y | n >
>               Ignore the slot/sub-slot := operator parts of
> dependencies that have been recorded  when  packages  where  built.
> This option is intended only for debugging purposes, and it  only
> affects  built  packages  that  specify slot/sub-slot := operator
> dependencies which are supported beginning with EAPI 5.
> 
> Sadly, there's probably no way to ignore them only for cases when they
> are completely useless, leaving the meaningful uses alone.

Well, if we have to advertise the usage of this option that basically
disables subslot rebuilds, it only means we are doing something
seriously wrong with subslots :=)

Alexis.