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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
  @ 2013-12-08 20:21 99%       ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2013-12-08 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Tom Wijsman; +Cc: gentoo-dev

>>>>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Tom Wijsman 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.

Ulrich


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2013-12-08 17:19     ` Andreas K. Huettel
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