Hi Michał,

Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> writes:

>> [...]
>>
>> Unfortunately, this ended up pretty bothersome to maintain.  Besides
>> making ebuilds quite complex (and prone to mistakes), I'm hearing more
>> and more reports of programs being broken through getting multiple LLVM
>> versions in the link chain.
>> 
>> This is not something that can be easily solved.  In other words, it's
>> a mess and I don't think we're really getting anywhere.  For this
>> reason, I'm considering dropping slotting and going back to permitting
>> only a single version of LLVM and Clang being installed.
>> 
>> [...]
>
> I've got the message and slotted LLVM and Clang are going to stay for
> the time being.

Thank you!  I appreciate your decision.  From the discussions of this
thread, the quality and SLOTing of llvm is a killing feature of Gentoo.

Shall we open a tracker bug to put together the linkage bugs?  We might
gain some inspirations from the global picture.

Yours,
Benda

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