On 06/05/2012 10:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:07:40 -0700 > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> The "SLOT operator" dependencies that Ciaran has been advocating are >> very close to a good solution. However, if we want it to work with >> unslotted packages, then we need to introduce a separate ABI_SLOT >> variable as discussed here: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192319#c18 >> >> It's really no more difficult to do than "SLOT operator" dependencies, >> it's more flexible, and we can do it in EAPI 5. > > I still don't get what problem you're trying to solve with that.
Well, I guess it's easy enough to use blockers to handle cases where two SLOTs can't be installed simultaneously. > SLOT > operator dependencies are known to work for the problem, and have > received extensive testing both on Gentoo (with the old KDE packages) > and elsewhere. Why not just go with those plus blockers initially, and > then add in ABI_SLOT only if it turns out that developers really can't > handle using SLOT correctly? Sounds good, especially considering the possibility of using blockers as mentioned. -- Thanks, Zac
