On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:19:18AM +0000, Francesco Riosa wrote: > A good solution should be to add the "multislot" USE flag to the ebuild > and let it to decide whenever make it slotted or not, sorry, this is not > viable, yes it's already used by other important packages but not well > supported by portage and should be used only in particular situations. [snip] > example: > > mysql-4.1.16-r[0..49] Need "+multislot" > mysql-4.1.16-r[50..99] Need "-multislot" > mysql-5.1.18-r[0..49] Need "+multislot" > mysql-5.1.18-r[50..99] Need "-multislot" NAK. Do not go the route of ranged revisions for specific features.
If you go with multislot, you must make it work in ALL revisions. One of the reasons why is that portage does not support a limited ranged dep properly last I checked, so this is hard for everybody to deal with. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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