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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
  @ 2013-12-08 20:31 99%           ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2013-12-08 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

>>>>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>> 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.

I stand corrected. However, that concerns only updates, but not the
way the dependency is resolved when it is met for the first time.

Ulrich


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2013-12-08 16:56     [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 17:19     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-12-08 19:14       ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 20:04         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-12-08 20:21           ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-12-08 20:26             ` Ciaran McCreesh
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