On 06/25/2012 06:03 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 23/06/12 08:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> On 06/10/2012 11:18 AM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> On 06/10/2012 05:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>>> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 Zac Medico >>>> <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>> A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. >>>>> Using the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], >>>>> the dbus-glib dependency will be expressed with an atom such >>>>> as dev-libs/glib:2:= and the package manager will translate >>>>> that atom to dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is >>>>> always used to distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used >>>>> to distinguish ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good? >>>> >>>> Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32". >>>> Then you can do explicit :2/2.32 dependencies if you like, or >>>> :2 (which would match SLOT="2" or SLOT="2/anything"), or :2= >>>> (which gets rewritten to :2/2.32=) or :2*. If an ebuild does >>>> SLOT="2", it's treated as 2/2. >>> >>> Yes, I prefer your syntax. > >> In portage-2.1.11.1 and 2.2.0_alpha112 I’ve added support for EAPI >> “4-slot-abi”: > > >> http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/06/23/automatic-rebuilds-with-experimental-eapi-4-slot-abi/ > > > Does > > anyone have a fork of the tree that's being converted to test > this new functionality? If so I'd like to sign up.
That would be nice to have, but I haven't heard of anyone doing it yet. -- Thanks, Zac
