On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:48:03 +0400 Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And should you be able to have the same KDE version with both > > USE=multislot and USE=-multislot installed at the same time? > > There are different SLOTs for different USE flags combination and > package manager should allow installation same package in different > SLOTs.
That'd require fairly hefty vdb changes. Which, whilst a good thing, makes it very definitely a long term feature. > > > Or new property for PROPERTIES called multislot which will > > > workaround the problem with "invariancy of the SLOT"? > > > > Uh, how would that work? > > For ebuilds with such property (may be better name dynamicslot or > dynslot) PM should source package with use flags set to get SLOT. Of > course it's possible to cache results, sourcing package with all > different USE flags combinations during cache generation. a) PROPERTIES can't be used to implement any mandatory feature, and b) multiply half a second to however many packages there are using this feature and add that to the resolution time. The metadata cache is necessary. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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