* Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
@ 2013-12-08 19:48 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2013-12-08 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 14:39:39 -0500
Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > PMS just provides a mechanism, but doesn't prefer one SLOT value
> > over another. Such a change would introduce policy into PMS which
> > is not the right way to go.
>
> 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.
SLOT=0 isn't special in PMS these days. (Historically it was. Now SLOT
is mandatory, and it doesn't default to 0.)
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Ciaran McCreesh
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