From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: 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 22:02:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131208220201.2f261e4f@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131208225439.3cc39a9c@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:54:39 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So we should basically encourage people to explicitly state ':*' when
> they mean that, correct? Because I can tell you that right now many
> people don't use that because they see it as redundant.
That was the point of adding :*, yes. Repoman was supposed to be
updated to catch DEPEND+RDEPEND deps which could match multiple slots
and which didn't specify either := or :*. AFAIK this never actually
happened.
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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
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 [this message]
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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