Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Gilles Dartiguelongue [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : big_snip Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... no, this is not the proper

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-07-01 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, some of you might still remember what I said about gtk and slots long time ago. Just to summarize my point: * the use of slots should be MINIMIZED. IMHO, the kernel is one of the few valid uses, gtk is NOT (1.*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
big_snip Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-30 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : big_snip Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... no, this is not the proper solution. Just consider how bad gtk/gtk2 useflag was and that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Tiziano Müller
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Tiziano Müller schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Tiziano Müller schrieb: Hi everyone I'd like to bring bug #229521 to your attention and see whether we can come up with a solution for it. The problem: A package foo depends on a slotted package bar _and_ more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Tiziano Müller schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Tiziano Müller schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Tiziano Müller schrieb: Hi everyone I'd like to bring bug #229521 to your attention and see whether we can come up with a solution for it. The problem: A package foo depends on a slotted

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Tiziano Müller
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:57:11 +0200 Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I miss two things here: a) What happens in case of DEPEND=, RDEPEND==cat/bar-2:= ? Is that defined? If yes, what does it mean? If not, what shall be the package managers behaviour? := only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:41:17 +0200 Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: := only makes sense when something is both a DEPEND and an RDEPEND. Actual behaviour, for Paludis, is that it rewrites := deps to :=blah when writing to VDB any time it can, and leaves anything it can't as := deps.