From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 17:19:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21157.60822.905475.532655@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_=Pmd98b8fu1SmO9WNkhHsyJ5hEgjWNDOsvu18uWR2w5A@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Rich Freeman wrote:
> If you think that B isn't the empty set, it is trivial for you to
> demonstrate that this is the case. Simply give me a single example of
> a situation where:
> 1. It makes sense for a dep to use a new slot.
> 2. It makes sense for all of its reverse deps to automatically use
> the new slot without any further intervention by the individual
> reverse dep maintainers.
app-editors/emacs, to start with.
If you go through the list of about 400 packages that have more than
one slot (out of 17000 packages in the portage tree), I'm sure you'll
find many more that fall in B. On first glance, only a minor part of
these 400 seem to be libraries.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-08 16:54 [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 23:57 ` Patrick Lauer
2013-12-09 0:12 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-09 0:21 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 6:52 ` Sergey Popov
2013-12-09 10:55 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-09 16:06 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 16:19 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-12-10 0:31 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-10 8:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2013-12-10 8:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-08 16:56 [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 17:16 ` Michał Górny
2013-12-08 17:19 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-12-08 17:26 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-12-08 17:46 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 18:56 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-08 19:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 19:39 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-08 19:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-08 20:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 20:17 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 2:37 ` heroxbd
2013-12-09 2:55 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 3:19 ` heroxbd
2013-12-08 20:21 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-10 21:06 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-12-10 23:35 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:04 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 20:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-08 20:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 21:54 ` Michał Górny
2013-12-08 22:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-08 20:28 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:30 ` Tom Wijsman
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