[gentoo-dev] Re: Repoman check and QA policy for slot deps/operator

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Michał Górny posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:03:18 +0200 as excerpted:

> Dnia 2014-08-07, o godz. 15:37:07 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
> napisał(a):
> 
>> 6. dev-libs/bar<what?> -- if any version of bar is acceptable, and you
>> need to rebuild bar only when changing slots (but not subslots).
>> 
>> Can it happen?  Covered if so?
> 
> Long story short, PMS doesn't provide a way do this. I can't think of
> any use case for that, and I think that is one of the reasons no syntax
> for that was provided.

Makes sense.  Good to have confirmation of what I suspected.

>> Tho you did switch from dev-libs/foo in the initial statement to
>> dev-libs/bar in the list of permutations.  Normally, I take that to
>> imply some relationship between foo and bar, thus the need for two
>> labels instead of reusing the first, but if there is such a
>> relationship here I don't see it.  I am certainly confused but is it
>> because there such a relationship that I'm simply not seeing (that
>> possibly eliminates my sixth permutation), or did you "switch horses in
>> mid-stream", as the saying goes?
> 
> dev-libs/foo has a single slot. dev-libs/bar has multiple slots.

MUCH clearer now.  Thanks. =:^)

(Hmm... my client's warning says I'm not verbose enough, too much quoted 
text for my reply.  /That/ doesn't happen very often! After adding this 
note it's the "continue anyway" button. =:^)

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