Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/02/13 07:52 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:38:35 +1100 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I even noticed some maintainers adding subslots dependencies on libraries that do not yet define subslots. This too

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-10 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:09:38 +1100 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: On 9/02/2013 23:52, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:38:35 +1100 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I even noticed some maintainers adding subslots dependencies on libraries that do

[gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Palimaka
Hi, On 9/02/2013 23:15, Alexis Ballier wrote: Dear fellow developers, I hope this will be trivial to most of you but after seeing bug #455900 and the vast majority of developers not even thinking twice before sedding their dep strings, I believe this needs some attention. What is wrong with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:38:35 +1100 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, On 9/02/2013 23:15, Alexis Ballier wrote: Dear fellow developers, I hope this will be trivial to most of you but after seeing bug #455900 and the vast majority of developers not even thinking twice

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:38:35 +1100 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I even noticed some maintainers adding subslots dependencies on libraries that do not yet define subslots. This too seems reasonable, given that there would be no impact until the library defines a (sensible)

[gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 10/02/2013 00:47, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 09/02/13 14:15, Alexis Ballier wrote: Dear fellow developers, I didn't find anything to reply directly here, so sorry for stealing this message. I just wanted to point out that people have lately been adding deps like: media-libs/libpng:=

[gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 9/02/2013 23:52, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:38:35 +1100 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I even noticed some maintainers adding subslots dependencies on libraries that do not yet define subslots. This too seems reasonable, given that there would be no impact

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/09/2013 06:05 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: Is there a difference in behaviour between 'media-libs/libpng:=' and 'media-libs/libpng' with no slot information at all? I don't know if you phrased your question as intended. Anyway, yes, the difference is that one with the slot-operator will

[gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 10/02/2013 03:06, Zac Medico wrote: On 02/09/2013 06:05 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: Is there a difference in behaviour between 'media-libs/libpng:=' and 'media-libs/libpng' with no slot information at all? I don't know if you phrased your question as intended. Anyway, yes, the difference

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On the good usage of subslots

2013-02-09 Thread Pacho Ramos
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 ...