* Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
@ 2013-12-08 22:02 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2013-12-08 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Michał Górny; +Cc: gentoo-dev
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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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