* Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?
@ 2013-12-08 21:54 99% ` Michał Górny
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From: Michał Górny @ 2013-12-08 21:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: ciaran.mccreesh
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Dnia 2013-12-08, o godz. 20:26:44
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> napisał(a):
> 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.
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.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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2013-12-08 17:19 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-12-08 19:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
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