On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:03:03 +0200 Rémi Cardona <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could anyone actually give a good reason for slot operators? What > packages would have a _clear_ benefit from using them? I'm asking for > an actual list of packages, not just some package that may exist in a > parallel universe. All package depending on dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp. Although these won't be parallel-installable slots, it will really easy the transition between versions and allow us to ease the currently quite strict interdependencies between the various packages that make up the gtk-sharp, gnome-sharp and gnome-desktop-sharp tarballs, where all versions of all packages are bound to a single gtk-sharp major version (2.12 at the moment). Currently we handle bumps in api by bumping every package in this trifecta from hell. That way, users only have to rebuild their apps, portage will take care of rebuilding the -sharp libs.
