maillog: 02/02/2005-09:05:59(+0100): foser types > 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.
Do you mean that the packages in "system" require all versions anyway? If the packages in "system" can go without some particular version, then I am pretty sure that it *should* be possible to go without that version. > 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. -- ) Georgi Georgiev ) Someone on IRC was very sad about the ) ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( uptime of his machine wrapping from 497 ( ) +81(90)6266-1163 ) days to 0. -- linux-kernel )
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