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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] atom matching behavior
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:59:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060803165901.1df9f5d0@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060803070735.61a1e3e9@sven.genone.homeip.net>

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:07:35 +0200 Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| "*  means  match  any version of the package so long as the specified
| base is matched"
| 
| can be read both ways.
| 
| Opinions?

Oooh! I have opinions!

If you're changing the dep behaviour, you might as well just do it
properly and add in :slot deps, which are a proper fix for this
problem...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-03 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-03  5:07 [gentoo-dev] atom matching behavior Marius Mauch
2006-08-03  5:44 ` Harald van Dijk
2006-08-05  5:16   ` Mike Frysinger
2006-08-03  8:05 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-08-03 12:33 ` Joshua Nichols
2006-08-03 15:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2006-08-03 17:56   ` Marius Mauch
2006-08-03 20:34 ` Stephen Bennett

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