El sáb, 09-02-2013 a las 18:39 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 09/02/13 18:36, Michael Palimaka wrote: > > Eg. He wrote we should use 'media-libs/libpng:0=', but pre-subslots, the > > :0 was often (incorrectly?) omitted. > > I've at least been adding :0 to many packages, openssl, tiff, libpng ... > > ... pretty much ever since the libpng 1.4 "upgrade problem" in the past > that reminded me that if something is possible, users will do it > people masked >=media-libs/libpng-1.4 and they only got the :1.2 > binary-only SLOT installed and ended up with no headers > so having :0 forces the headers be there, and people don't get confused > (at least if you read portage's output correctly) > > >
Wouldn't be better to force (via repoman) people to set exact slot (or :* if packages work for all slots) to prevent problems like this and future breakages could appear when SLOT if bumped and rdeps are not fixes to depend on needed slot?
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