Patrick Lauer <patrick <at> gentoo.org> writes: > > On 06/23/12 21:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > There's been a move towards using slots for "clever" things that don't > > fit the traditional way of how slots worked. Examples include the new > > gtk2 / gtk3 handling and Ruby gems virtuals. > > > > Aside from being abusive, > No, it solves a real problem. > > this screws things up for Paludis users. > -EDONTCARE, use a supported package manager
So if the packagemanager is struggling to resolve whether a package belongs in a slot or not, would this be a case for encoding such metadata in the ebuild filename. foo-slot2-3.2.1.ebuild This way the PM would be able to determine exactly what it has todo before it starts to parse the ebuild
