A "DEPEND atom" is the term used in the portage(5) and ebuild(5) man pages to 
describe an expression of the type: ">=app-sci/emboss-2.9.0" (a category and 
a package, with optional logical operator and version). It is the syntax used 
in the ebuilds' "DEPEND" variable, and in many Portage configuration files, 
such as "package.use".

On Thursday, 2 September, 2004 09:36 pm, Anton Starikov wrote:
> Probably some misunderstanding from my side. What you mean with "atom" ?
> just "app" in my terms? If no, can you explain?
>
> Basically, I think best case - is when you can specify one of:
>
> some-cat/app (this MUST be, because we have doubling of names for some
> pkgs) =some-cat/app-1.2.3 (this also MUST be, because of SLOTed pkgs, some
> bugs workaround and so on)
> app (this is not really necessary I guess, I would suggest to not have
> it at all)

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