On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:54:21 -0400 > Alexandre Rostovtsev <[email protected]> wrote: >> For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support into >> different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an example; the >> gtk2-based versions have -r2xx revision numbers and go in slot 2, >> while the gtk3-based versions have -r3xx revision numbers and go in >> slot 3). > > That is not what revisions are for. If you can't solve a problem > properly using existing mechanisms, ask for new ones. >
It's a simple workaround for the lack of proper ebuild namespacing on the basis of slots. So, till we have that, this works pretty well. :) -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
