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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:13:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120922161342.59b6e20a@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120922095508.1f07dce5@pomiocik.lan>

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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:55:08 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The fore-mentioned problems could be solved through introducing a more
> natural dependency syntax:
> 
>   PACKAGE-NAME [[*WSP] VERSION-OP [*WSP] PACKAGE-VERSION]]

If we'd rather not break backwards compatibility and add in all kinds
of whitespace-related mess, another option is cat/pkg[>=2.3].

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-22 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-22  7:55 [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies Michał Górny
2012-09-22  8:18 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-22  8:26   ` Michał Górny
2012-09-22  9:05     ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-22  9:07 ` Alex Alexander
2012-09-22 16:32   ` Michał Górny
2012-09-22 15:12 ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-22 15:37   ` Michał Górny
2012-09-22 15:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2012-09-22 16:13 ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-22 16:30   ` Michał Górny
2012-09-22 17:11     ` Alex Alexander
2012-09-22 17:25       ` Michał Górny
2012-09-22 18:11         ` Alex Alexander
2012-09-22 19:52           ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-22 19:51         ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-22 16:35   ` Ben de Groot
2012-09-22 16:39     ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-09-22 17:05 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-09-22 17:19   ` Michał Górny
2012-09-22 19:01     ` Brian Dolbec
2012-09-25 23:41     ` Brian Harring
2012-09-22 19:41 ` hasufell

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