On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:29:05AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:56:34 +0200
> Andy Mender <andymenderunix@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I believe the main problem comes from /bin/bash and potential symlinks that
> > would need to be introduced as part of  the slotting.
>
> In a pinch you could probably get away with
> calling :1 /usr/bin/bash-4.4 instead of /usr/bin/bash, and then
> offering no luxuries beyond that, leaving it up to the user to do the rest.
>
> Then you could test it in ~/ with PATH + Symlink in ~/bin/ ... maybe.
>
> There would just not be much point, because the real purpose of testing
> 4.4 is not for fear of it breaking user experience ( which is a
> problem, but not the primary motive ),  but for making everything else
> that runs with bash runs OK.
>
> Maybe you could do some horrible QA Violation like USE=multislot
> which changes the slot from :0 and adds the -suffix at the same time.
>
> But I still don't think its a useful or good idea.

I am against it as well. The purpose of this testing is to eventually
move to bash-4.4 being stable and replacing bash-4.3, so slotting it
would make that more complex later.

William