* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multislot mysql
@ 2006-02-03 14:16 99% ` Francesco Riosa
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From: Francesco Riosa @ 2006-02-03 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote:
>> A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild
>> and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not
>> viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but not well
>> supported by portage and should be used only in particular situations.
> [snip]
>> example:
>>
>> mysql-4.1.16-r[0..49] Need "+multislot"
>> mysql-4.1.16-r[50..99] Need "-multislot"
>> mysql-5.1.18-r[0..49] Need "+multislot"
>> mysql-5.1.18-r[50..99] Need "-multislot"
> NAK. Do not go the route of ranged revisions for specific features.
>
> If you go with multislot, you must make it work in ALL revisions.
>
> One of the reasons why is that portage does not support a limited
> ranged dep properly last I checked, so this is hard for everybody to
> deal with.
>
Robin, Jakub,
I can see your points here, for the moment I will left things as is,
still open to alternatives.
Francesco
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