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].
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev 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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