From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JamOC-0007Z6-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:30:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E14CE0394; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out2.libero.it (smtp-out2.libero.it [212.52.84.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA943E0394 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from MailRelay09.libero.it (192.168.32.116) by smtp-out2.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4688F31B197AE77D for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:30:33 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsBAM5a3EeXORDG/2dsb2JhbAAIpw0 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.57.16.198]) by outrelay-b09.libero.it with ESMTP; 16 Mar 2008 07:30:32 +0100 Message-ID: <47DCBE68.5000109@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:30:00 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9 slotting or not? References: <47DBF558.7030705@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <47DBF558.7030705@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9f242c32-ff61-4bcc-b61b-7048cee99d8c X-Archives-Hash: 4427874d0bf2280e7b5862a452e88371 Ra=C3=BAl Porcel wrote: > Xulrunner-1.9 is a big change, and the apps using it won't work until=20 > they are fixed. So this needs to be decided, i've been working on=20 > slotting xulrunner, and i'm ready to put it in the tree. However i'd=20 > like to see what developers(since they will be the ones who will have t= o=20 > deal with this) and users prefer. Even if an app is compatible with=20 > xulrunner-1.9, it will have to be patched if we slot xulrunner. Since=20 > the pkgconfig files for xulrunner-1.9 are renamed to avoid collisions=20 > with current xulrunner-1.8. > The other approach would be not slotting it, p.mask xulrunner-1.9 and=20 > wait until all the packages work against it and then unmask. Given the number of applications I'd rather have them fixed with the=20 patches pushed to respective upstreams if we got there first. lu --=20 Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list