* Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : > > <big_snip> > > > > Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o > > > > I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... > > no, this is not the proper solution. Just consider how bad gtk/gtk2 > useflag was and that was with only 1 package with 2 slots.
Well, some of you might still remember what I said about gtk and slots long time ago. Just to summarize my point: * the use of slots should be MINIMIZED. IMHO, the kernel is one of the few valid uses, gtk is NOT (1.* and 2.* are *different* packages and so should be treated differently). * at runtime an most packages need that variant/slot they were built for (and gtk1'ed package needs gtk-1.x, NOT gtk-2.* and vice versa) * often the slots are just necessary because the upstream's bad code design. IMHO, if a package doesn't have *clean* dependency tree, it's simply not a package, but just a bunch of code ;-P > Now think about say db (berkeleydb) or gtkhtml (and I'm still > probably overlooking the most important point). What's exactly the problem with that packages ? BTW: maybe many things would be easier, if portage itself could differenciate between source and binary packages, but that might be a too big step ;-o cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
