On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 > > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > That's just it, though -- this no longer holds. -r300 is now > > > > being used for something that is exactly the same version as > > > > -r200. > > > > > > Did you look at SONAME? > > > > Look at SONAME before deciding what package to install? Kindly > > explain how that works. > > I'm just saying that these are two different versions of the package. > If you want GTK+3, you take the newer one. If you want GTK+2 compat, > you take the older slot. What's wrong with that?
The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a "better" version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a "better" version than 1.1-r300. Indicating packages where this kind of strangeness happens allows manglers to know that things that are usually true about the relationship between slots and versions no longer hold, and that in these specific cases it should consider slots to be heavily independent. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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