>>>>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, Michał Górny wrote: > My suggestion is to move binary compatibility slots into separate > packages. For example, dev-libs/openssl would be split into:
> dev-libs/openssl -- containing the actual package > dev-libs/openssl-bin-compat -- containing binary compatibility slots A long time ago, that scheme was used, but around 2010 is was changed to the current slot-based solution. For example, there used to be media-libs/jpeg-compat and x11-libs/openmotif-compat, and these were moved to compatibility slots of the main package. So before reverting that change, I would suggest to look up the old discussion, in order to find out if there was a valid reason for it. Also the "bin" is confusing, if the package is compiled from source. Why not simply dev-libs/openssl-compat? Ulrich
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