Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild >> and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not >> viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but not well >> supported by portage and should be used only in particular situations. > [snip] >> example: >> >> mysql-4.1.16-r[0..49] Need "+multislot" >> mysql-4.1.16-r[50..99] Need "-multislot" >> mysql-5.1.18-r[0..49] Need "+multislot" >> mysql-5.1.18-r[50..99] Need "-multislot" > NAK. Do not go the route of ranged revisions for specific features. > > If you go with multislot, you must make it work in ALL revisions. > > One of the reasons why is that portage does not support a limited > ranged dep properly last I checked, so this is hard for everybody to > deal with. >
Robin, Jakub, I can see your points here, for the moment I will left things as is, still open to alternatives. Francesco -- [email protected] mailing list
