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 1SiTVT-00067R-HP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:48:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D134B21C096; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E4321C034 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from leo.local (ip-62-143-188-179.unitymediagroup.de [62.143.188.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jlec) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FD2D1B4024; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FE5F31E.80608@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:47:26 +0200 From: Justin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120616 Thunderbird/13.0 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: PROPERTIES=funky-slots References: <20120623142143.631d7ebf@googlemail.com> <4FE5EB23.5040600@gentoo.org> <20120623171704.4f24cba6@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120623171704.4f24cba6@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0B048E1D9CB79838923B7A70" X-Archives-Salt: e84e0043-ff05-4140-91d9-7a65ab11c7fe X-Archives-Hash: 36f37eab9466b52cdb6429f977d9371e This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0B048E1D9CB79838923B7A70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23.06.2012 18:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:13:23 +0200 > Justin wrote: >> Did you read what you wrote and thought about what you request from >> others? Probably you better should. >=20 > Uh huh, and I think we all know there's a huge difference between > knowing what versions and slots are and knowing what "a multilib" is. >=20 Might be right, but that doesn't allow you to break your own rules. Plus I still don't get the problem of using SLOTS in the way they are used now. And I can't find this out by simply googling. In contrast, an explanation of multilib in context of linux distribution and more specific gentoo can be found easily. But that's nothing I wanted to discuss here. Stop acting in this arrogant way you are doing right now. This doesn't make sympathetic in any way and heavily overshadows the technically skills you will have for sure. >> An example: >> >> "...slots and versions to "mean" something other than what they used >> to,..." >> >> is completely useless without a description of what SLOTS are about >> and how the should be used. And what is the wrong usage you can find; >> examples are necessary here for understanding. >=20 > That's covered in the devmanual and in the user documentation, so > there's no need to repeat it here. Ever heard about references. They are good, if you don't like to repeat what is written, but which are necessary context to understand what you are writing. You should use them for the sake of understanding, if you are to lazy to write it out again. >=20 >> To me, it doesn't solve the root cause, but actually I can't judge >> this, because I am missing a description of what is really going >> wrong. >=20 > As I've already said, this isn't about solving the root cause. It's > about reducing the impact of damage that's already been done until the > root cause is solved properly. >=20 My clear vote is No. We shouldn't implement anything which allows bad coding anywhere, just for the sake of having it "solved" now. --------------enig0B048E1D9CB79838923B7A70 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk/l8x4ACgkQgAnW8HDreRaapQCfeAOoYth9IZTTk8+g/F8xzJMQ JFcAn3y4BWzCs8Ao2ays/jqkEZ+wT1S1 =jhRw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0B048E1D9CB79838923B7A70--