From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647BB13827E for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 20:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E444E0A45; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 20:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f175.google.com (mail-we0-f175.google.com [74.125.82.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25017E09DE for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 20:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id t60so2599362wes.6 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 12:26:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type; bh=k0shQ7V0WrYp1tEZ6NmwJ6mfWy5FhLCRSlD3vqfyJfw=; b=E2ejtSbRWE1pe2MhSx8w9yO9U8qQmtaABCT9BEk+Yf6JnPFyv8wsMjcfIZXFUsWbJ3 B3ZXFKuG0n8/LGTrYI0etuYeBOJKcbtcddEo1tzXJLdFs3Li9lr4W5FADaFLgrDJde1F SlhaEMxza4tS0AWcUBVTpAUYXKMjEC6/rIjuG9VQDDOZ6Jt6u2ne5n/MpbDbGU2dKZBY MQz1YJozmwRm9+yX/wdPev3agLNejbUzUmpUToryLjIRfD3QUcUFlZwI0MRkDc88fenM 4KUkPs7V5rF4joRT2iMHytu/JYUViQ+9ysnJJLDg15aZjNhqgsdkWFEUZf7TWiujgEqu 2yKQ== X-Received: by 10.194.62.8 with SMTP id u8mr2846028wjr.68.1386534409881; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 12:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cpc3-broo7-2-0-cust157.14-2.cable.virginm.net. [86.30.224.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ll10sm18163234wic.9.2013.12.08.12.26.49 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Dec 2013 12:26:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 20:26:44 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? Message-ID: <20131208202644.125cc309@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <21156.54496.55818.685610@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20131208175612.2b8c7e38@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <201312081819.40449.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <21156.50471.613516.395616@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20131208210436.47b7e6d5@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <21156.54496.55818.685610@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/LleRzdu=LGz3qMQCh6x+nMU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 28b5320a-a0ce-44c5-81f8-24e68f6b0309 X-Archives-Hash: 17c0924ddc034d9d905a7bca6accee61 --Sig_/LleRzdu=LGz3qMQCh6x+nMU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:21:52 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > The PMS describes package manager behavior required to support an > > ebuild repository. If I read the PMS correctly, SLOT-less > > dependencies have undefined behavior; this makes it so that if you > > have a different package manager using the same ebuild repository, > > it could interpret the dependencies completely different. >=20 > Nothing undefined here. A dependency without a slot means that all > slot values are acceptable. And all package managers interpret it in > the same way. Actually, Paludis interprets a lack of slot dependency as a "don't know", and assumes that it might be unsafe to switch slots at runtime in these cases. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/LleRzdu=LGz3qMQCh6x+nMU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKk1ggACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEfQQCfYsI5FQEmeMuvgcFXllPaJXpA BLkAoJdN3CCsxQ2QyJ/iy+LMSe6F19bp =6DXR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/LleRzdu=LGz3qMQCh6x+nMU--