[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling branch strings

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 10:34 Mon 10 Dec     , Santiago M. Mola wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:

>>> While we're getting a bit off the original topic here, it occurred to me
>>> that using SLOTs for this, in combination with various SLOT deps and
>>> SLOT blockers, might work. Then one could use a search tool that would
>>> display SLOTs to show you which branch you're getting.

>> Too tricky. It would confuse package managers and would break the
>> meaning of SLOT. An use expanded SCM_BRANCH combined with use
>> dependencies makes more sense and, hopefully, would be something
>> manageable.

> You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I would 
> like to understand the reasoning behind them. I don't understand how it 
> would be different than any other SLOT, because they're already a 
> string. USE_EXPAND doesn't allow for the possibility of multiple SLOTs 
> installed at once, which is a feature I would like.

Right, can't you just suffix the SLOT name?  My gcc svn builds just
do SLOT="${GCC_BRANCH_VER}-svn".  This could be a special case though
since a gcc install is pretty carefully separated from its other SLOTs.


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