From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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 19:48:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131208194857.054e91e3@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_=Y5hwaVw60cX==XxYPu0Z6wK5TOJYQrkc9Att83fqiHg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 14:39:39 -0500
Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > PMS just provides a mechanism, but doesn't prefer one SLOT value
> > over another. Such a change would introduce policy into PMS which
> > is not the right way to go.
>
> Sure it does - it defaults to :* when :* was never specified. I don't
> see how defaulting to :0= is a "policy" any more than :* is.
SLOT=0 isn't special in PMS these days. (Historically it was. Now SLOT
is mandatory, and it doesn't default to 0.)
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Ciaran McCreesh
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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
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 [this message]
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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