* 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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