From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E59D1381F4 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ED76E0720; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA51E0720 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q7H6ljpY019686 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:47:45 +0200 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q7H6ljte018564; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:47:45 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q7H6ljJo018562; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:47:45 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20525.59660.197082.215568@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:47:40 +0200 To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Extend slot-operator-deps with sub-slot support In-Reply-To: <502D24CE.1040300@gentoo.org> References: <502C8333.30706@gentoo.org> <20120816110942.6db3414f@googlemail.com> <502D24CE.1040300@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: d3eeadd7-8bd4-4e03-ab8a-a958d44b8a23 X-Archives-Hash: fa48eebf4bf1bc97fe008ecb7b4d380b >>>>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Zac Medico wrote: >>> The attached patch extends the slot-operator-deps specification to >>> include sub-slot support (as it's implemented in Portage with EAPI >>> 4-slot-abi). Some links for reference: >>> >>> http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/06/23/automatic-rebuilds-with-experimental-eapi-4-slot-abi/ >>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi-4-slot-abi >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424429 >> >> Can we not use the term "reverse dependencies" please? It's horribly >> ambiguous. > Yes, I've changed it to say "dependent packages" instead. I've also > removed the redundant sub-slot-names section, as suggested by Ulrich > on irc. Committed to eapi-5 branch, with two changes: - I've added another column "Supports sub-slots?" to tab:slot-deps-table. - The "sub-slot" label was defined twice (and LaTeX complained about it, so I've removed one of the definitions. Ulrich