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 B99A513827E for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CAAAE0A88; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com (mail-we0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6605E096C for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id q59so2640472wes.24 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:02:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type; bh=+ReXPIB2R0TZuEmLhkbJGvefU4CqRTVgwX0MvLaATC0=; b=JEKzFxm/QoJWc3zHCTO0CBfzA03ALgaDfdsi4ds9QYThnSG6DfEjC953UqfdYO7QpV fRRGKpUeb+P48kpmd8E6obo5QPBTwqZFypHnFPidvPqt2eoIaY1E9fED6Sa0yrEfdPIW wVlfl1Pi+nunOADPUNDPCU7qEqtBpcUCGMIeanbEqkTRwL2zVcVXA6n3s1DsDO8+X+9/ Wpx+Irp0tGjy0NdDvSJLDEeWWYwJ/Gff3lYaiR+DhSnXzO4kvdAbQNBldLivCRq3A2Ev d6FeIj3hCNVAAAR+UO8gIHQ3h+ME6hOk3vFLPiA/IYMkzdHrlJ/iO8kAhW9EkcvcpOIE EJjg== X-Received: by 10.194.202.230 with SMTP id kl6mr12660632wjc.9.1386540127478; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:02:07 -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 uc18sm18840250wib.11.2013.12.08.14.02.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:02:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:02:01 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= Cc: 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: <20131208220201.2f261e4f@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131208225439.3cc39a9c@gentoo.org> 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> <20131208202644.125cc309@googlemail.com> <20131208225439.3cc39a9c@gentoo.org> 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_/INR.K6W_YW_SKw5h6eXGIlA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: c7aff1fe-cf8c-4f45-8f63-14ca8e8e0fcf X-Archives-Hash: 474ddc95c6b9015c81d55865ede90ce3 --Sig_/INR.K6W_YW_SKw5h6eXGIlA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:54:39 +0100 Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny 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. >=20 > 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 :=3D or :*. AFAIK this never actually happened. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/INR.K6W_YW_SKw5h6eXGIlA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKk7F0ACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHMSgCgurrreNbwf2KZpSXe5OA6EfHh PVYAnjCQJM9Md9gWxMgR5JLMZ/l/x0bJ =GxbF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/INR.K6W_YW_SKw5h6eXGIlA--