From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D49C3139694 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 06:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ED9DE0BF0; Fri, 5 May 2017 06:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D498E0BD8 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 06:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (host2092.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ulm) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 855953416C4; Fri, 5 May 2017 06:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <22796.5497.440435.116737@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 08:02:33 +0200 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing In-Reply-To: <20170504174237.6164ef4d@wim> References: <1493548186.6038.2.camel@gentoo.org> <11422999.nSgCkNWNEm@pinacolada> <487e8818-1ee3-7bdc-65ac-01d55ae881d6@gentoo.org> <84f7fb6d-7a42-00e7-6043-f05f895ee9e8@gentoo.org> <22792.31821.903280.377707@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20170504174237.6164ef4d@wim> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller 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; boundary="pgp+signed+45Y5Im/XF+4C9so"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 00674c68-a3a7-4b03-beab-24425f60ca5f X-Archives-Hash: cf995e0b3fb4a71257204ee8384298c0 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+45Y5Im/XF+4C9so Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> On Thu, 4 May 2017, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Atom Prefix Operators [> >= = <= <] > Sometimes you want to be able to depend on general > versions rather than specifying exact versions all the time. > Hence we provide standard boolean operators: > Examples: > >media-libs/libgd-1.6 > >=media-libs/libgd-1.6 > =media-libs/libgd-1.6 > <=media-libs/libgd-1.6 > PMS does not define what a valid atom looks like, except that it > somehow doesn't describe atoms to begin with, apparently because > that has yet to be replaced with something better, or is perhaps up > to the PM to define. [...] PMS got rid of the ambiguous "atom" term 10 years ago, in favour of "package dependency specification": https://bugs.gentoo.org/174322 That makes it much more clear where it is supposed to be used, namely in dependencies. (Imagine that! :-) > PS: It might be a week before I feel like reading the "don't touch > my stuff" cabal again, so please don't mind if I happen to touch > your stuff while you work out what's wrong with your attitude. Not going to comment on this. Ulrich --pgp+signed+45Y5Im/XF+4C9so Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJZDBVxAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJzKmEIAIWsSWCpr1zDcIMib4MFbwZ/ oA4+TcOVOfLYS4ep+t8mS9SOSN6DRrD43ENlqJGVwobcvUBgPSfx+Q/7y/kqJwKM Kffe6bqQrfq6/tS1xLJUWaMVHpqBzH/jz0PNiQuy/U/XKV1chh0hl+sNnZJ7BlEm 8ZpVJ7VB/RENp3JDJ4/cyaJYFQ3tkJYW7v2FsXu4RYwIHmpJ9pZvFIozYY5D8udZ be5AlfY8b+/6evFkK3Gf1YYkqzfTYuKyVYoWxcOsCe5Xbkug+OVpupnR3znV/y9s vjk3XqaFbQ/SLO9qcjw/bkMOC7OAJLhz6nL8scqApOdkqGESr+/Z6SBFVrkH4Nw= =y7Xg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+45Y5Im/XF+4C9so--