On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > [some dev please forward this to gentoo-user] > > it seems our new SLOT-ed ebuilds of autoconf / automake / libtool have users > confused. 'why does emerge want to install so many !?' you ask yourself > outloud. the truth is, nothing has changed on your system, you just *think* > something is different. > > the old ebuilds (autoconf-2.59-r5 / automake-1.8.5-r1 / libtool-1.5.2-r7) > actually downloaded and installed multiple versions of each package. you > *thought* you had just one autoconf, but boy oh boy were you wrong ! > > in the future i'd like to make package maintainers be a little less lazy and > declare what version of autoconf / automake / libtool they wish to run in > their ebuilds so that, in the normal scheme of things, you only have the > versions installed on your system that you need ... perhaps a pipe dream, but > when you live with Ramereth, you need them :(
On any self built system you will probably need every version anyway, so yeah it's dream. But again this gets pitched _after_ the change has been made & already generated possible bugreports I had no lead on until this got mentioned here. Introduce it, fine. Communicate it, the first step in the process, not the last. - foser
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