Bug 925760

Summary:	portage: make sub-slots world-recordable
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Joonas Niilola <juippis>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev

2024-02-29 13:30:07 UTC

Hey,

this has come up every now and then: a neat new feature would be to make subslots world-recordable. So people could pin subslots to world-file.

For example:

app-containers/lxd:0/lts would only allow updating 0/lts lxd's.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-containers/lxd

So 5.0.2 would update to 5.0.3 even in ~unstable system.

We have some packages that use "fakeslotting" to get past this: nginx and firefox come to mind. That's not how slots should be used and we don't want more packages to adopt this style either. But currently 0/lts is annoying to users because they need to resort to package.masking, instead of it just working in a world-file.