[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-30 Thread Marius Mauch
Sometimes a package has to depend on a specific version of a slotted package being the active one to build correctly, like in the current tr1 discussion on -dev [1] or with packages that depend on the running kernel. Currently this isn't really possible, however I while ago I got an idea how to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: Sometimes a package has to depend on a specific version of a slotted package being the active one to build correctly, like in the current tr1 discussion on -dev [1] or with packages that depend on the running kernel. tr1 is

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-30 Thread Alec Warner
Marius Mauch wrote: Sometimes a package has to depend on a specific version of a slotted package being the active one to build correctly, like in the current tr1 discussion on -dev [1] or with packages that depend on the running kernel. Currently this isn't really possible, however I while

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-30 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:25:31 -0800 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: Sometimes a package has to depend on a specific version of a slotted package being the active one to build correctly, like in the current tr1 discussion