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 20:25:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131208202540.28d3a8f5@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131208212159.0a49761f@TOMWIJ-GENTOO>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:21:59 +0100
Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:01:00 +0100
> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >>>>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Defaulting to :* is just the long term behaviour from EAPIs 0 to 4
> > when no slot operator was specified.
>
> Which section in the PMS is this specified?
It's not, exactly. Paludis treats :* and "no slot specified"
differently. The former allows for runtime switching of slots. The
latter assumes "we don't know which slot it needs, so to be safe we'll
have to assume it could be any of them".
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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
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 [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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