From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 18:19:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201312081819.40449.dilfridge@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131208175612.2b8c7e38@TOMWIJ-GENTOO>
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Am Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2013, 17:56:12 schrieb Tom Wijsman:
>
> When our defaults force us down such path, that can't be good and it
> affects the quality of our Portage tree; so, this makes me wonder, can
> we change the default from :* to :0? What do you think?
>
I see the point, but I have my doubts on retroactively changing things.
(It's a global change where we would have to be very very very careful
regarding interactions with eclasses and so on.)
How about changing this in the next EAPI instead?
E.g., in EAPI=6, if no slot dependency is given in a dependency specification,
default to :0
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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-08 16:56 [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 17:16 ` Michał Górny
2013-12-08 17:19 ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
2013-12-08 17:26 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-12-08 17:46 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 18:56 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-08 19:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 19:39 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-08 19:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-08 20:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 20:17 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 2:37 ` heroxbd
2013-12-09 2:55 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 3:19 ` heroxbd
2013-12-08 20:21 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-10 21:06 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-12-10 23:35 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:04 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 20:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-08 20:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 21:54 ` Michał Górny
2013-12-08 22:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-12-08 20:28 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:30 ` Tom Wijsman
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2013-12-08 16:54 Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 23:57 ` Patrick Lauer
2013-12-09 0:12 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-09 0:21 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 6:52 ` Sergey Popov
2013-12-09 10:55 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-09 16:06 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-09 16:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-10 0:31 ` Tom Wijsman
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