672560 – x11-libs/libva should be SLOTted

Bug 672560 - x11-libs/libva should be SLOTted

Summary: x11-libs/libva should be SLOTted

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Alexis Ballier

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Reported:	2018-12-05 13:23 UTC by David Carlos Manuelda
Modified:	2019-05-06 09:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description David Carlos Manuelda 2018-12-05 13:23:04 UTC

Some software, like steam-client, requires =x11-libs/libva-1*, yet the current version is 2*.

Instead of a forced downgrade, and then losing the new functionalities for, for example libva-intel-driver, why not the ability for it to be slotted like many other libs, and be installed the two versions in parallel?

Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2018-12-05 14:08:33 UTC

I suspect some files clash, so perhaps we need a library-only SLOT here for proprietary stuff?

Comment 2 David Carlos Manuelda 2018-12-05 21:06:52 UTC

(In reply to Mart Raudsepp from comment #1)
> I suspect some files clash, so perhaps we need a library-only SLOT here for
> proprietary stuff?

This seems the most quick solution and I think the appropriate one, as I've seen this need only in proprietary libs in the whole tree if I am not wrong.

Comment 3 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2019-04-22 11:40:27 UTC

I could add a libva-compat package for this. I recently did the same for gcrypt.

Comment 4 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2019-05-06 09:59:51 UTC

(In reply to James Le Cuirot from comment #3)
> I could add a libva-compat package for this. I recently did the same for
> gcrypt.

Done!