On 07-09-2012 12:03:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > On 09/07/2012 11:17 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > I guess real-life examples, more extensively described than you did > > before, with exactly where it goes wrong, and how the situation is > > improved would help. > > Perhaps some of the greatest frustrations for Gentoo users stem from the > lack of support for automatic rebuild of packages when necessary. > Imagine how nice it would be if necessary rebuilds would automatically > occur when appropriate, so that you wouldn't experience build failures > that require you to manually intervene by running revdep-rebuild, > perl-cleaner, or something like that. And there are other kinds of > necessary rebuilds that don't trigger build failures, but lead to > runtime failures that are noticed much later (like xorg driver failures > after a major xorg-server update). Sub-slots can be used to solve the > bulk of problems like these that our users have had to deal with manually.
I like that! Kudos for making it work! I just wonder what the heck that has to do with SLOT. This discussion has been done before in this thread, and it somehow settled. > ... sub-slots are a relatively simple extension to slot-operator deps, > and they are poised to greatly improve user experience (via automatic > rebuilds) if they are included in EAPI 5. And we want it. But is it a good idea to add some feature that feels like just a hack? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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