* Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
@ 2013-12-08 20:26 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2013-12-08 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:21:52 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> 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.
>
> 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.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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