On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:32 +0300 > Alex Alexander <wi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> If it is a package without reverse dependencies, updating to the most >> recent slot and/or version should be expected unless the user has the >> slot defined in the world file. > > That's the part that no longer holds. The package mangler now needs a > way of knowing that for a certain few packages, bringing in new slots > when not explicitly required is undesirable.
Or the PM can notify the user that a new slot has come up and instruct them to specify their desired slot in their world file. -- Alex
