[gentoo-dev] Re: Slotting Tcl/Tk

[Eamon Caddigan <ecaddiga@uiuc.edu>]

Stanislav Brabec <utx@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> Tcl/tk slots is bad idea. It can change only if somebody will hack all
> dev-lang/tcl (and some extra) ebuilds to be able to create simultaneously
> packages for both tcl/tk 8.3 and 8.4 (if they support building for both
> versions).

If this is true, then I feel it's imperative that Tcl/Tk 8.4 become
stable, and all other packages in portage are made to work with it. 8.4
is about a year old now, and I find it unacceptable that it's only
available as an "unstable" package. This situation reminds me of that
*other* distro.

I agree that there are a lot of potential issues involved with SLOTting
this package. Unfortunately, the only alternatives -- a similarly
massive effort to make sure everything works with the newest version, or
sticking with an increasingly out-of-date package -- seem worse.

Thoughts?

-Eamon


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