* Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
@ 2012-06-10 12:25 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2012-06-10 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. Using
> the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the dbus-glib
> dependency will be expressed with an atom such as dev-libs/glib:2:=
> and the package manager will translate that atom to
> dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is always used to
> distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used to distinguish
> ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good?
Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32". Then you
can do explicit :2/2.32 dependencies if you like, or :2 (which would
match SLOT="2" or SLOT="2/anything"), or :2= (which gets rewritten
to :2/2.32=) or :2*. If an ebuild does SLOT="2", it's treated as 2/2.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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2012-06-06 17:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-06 18:02 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-06 18:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-06 18:30 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-06 18:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-06 19:16 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-06 19:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-07 0:43 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-07 8:24 ` Brian Harring
2012-06-07 16:43 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-07 17:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-07 18:03 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-07 18:16 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-07 18:43 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-07 18:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-07 19:00 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-07 19:09 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-07 19:24 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-07 19:33 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-08 8:38 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-08 19:16 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-08 19:23 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-06-08 19:31 ` Zac Medico
2012-06-09 12:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-06-09 20:55 ` Zac Medico
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