Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 27 September 2013 08:02, Martin Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.dewrote: For those which are provided by perl itself, you could have a corresponding useflag of dev-lang/perl and make a use dependency: If the main perl tarball does not provide the package, the perl ebuild can pull in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2013, 20:11:04 schrieb Kent Fredric: On 27 September 2013 05:57, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.comwrote: virtual/perl-* is self-inflicted. How would you recommend it? How about doing someting eclass-based, similar to add_kdebase_dep, and let

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
How do we handle packages which install multiple libraries? I'm afraid forcing such a policy and/or hurrying developers to adapt will only cause more of poppler-like issues to occur. Well, the best technical solution for this is probably subslot dictionaries as suggested in bug 462138. Then,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-09-26, o godz. 17:24:49 Davide Pesavento p...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 September 2013 19:53, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: How do we handle packages which install multiple libraries? I'm

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Martin Vaeth
Sorry if this is duplicate: I repost since I cannot see it after a few hours. Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 September 2013 08:02, Martin Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.dewrote: For those which are provided by perl itself, you could have a corresponding useflag of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Martin Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: I was not suggesting inlining the list into the dependency but only inlining the USE-flag into the (single) perl ebuild. Currently if I have a package which needs e.g. Term-ANSI-Color, but not in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

2013-09-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 28 September 2013 07:48, Martin Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.dewrote: Sorry if this is duplicate: I repost since I cannot see it after a few hours. Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 September 2013 08:02, Martin Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.dewrote:

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Upgrade Guide and EAPI

2013-09-27 Thread heroxbd
Dear Fellows, I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3]. There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The only block is how can we upgrade from an ancient system?, don't bump or the upgrade path will be break. Let's figure out a solid upgrade path