Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary package dependencies for sub-slot-less EAPIs

2013-04-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > In other words, “Why force folks to do this if there is no benefit?”. > This is understandable, but I think the broken binary packages [1] are > enough of a visible benefit. I certainly agree. As I bump my own packages I'll certainly be l

[gentoo-dev] Binary package dependencies for sub-slot-less EAPIs

2013-04-12 Thread W. Trevor King
Over on #gentoo-releng and in gentoo-catalyst@ we've been running into binary package dependency problems [1]. Before EAPI-5 and sub-slots, the version of dependency packages is not recorded in the binary package metadata (the Packages file). For example, a binary package for GCC built against mp