From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Remove cat/foo:* slot operator.
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:39:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120910073947.2a0209fe@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347221563-6865-1-git-send-email-ferringb@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 13:12:43 -0700
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Introduced originally via 8b54be6a, this is effectively a noop for
> gentoo ebuilds- nor is it providing any useful information to either
> the dev, or the PM, thus remove it.
The point of :* is to allow repoman to detect situations where a
package has a build and a run dep upon something that has multiple
slots, and to remind the developer that they either need to := it, or
to explicitly say that it's ok for slots to change.
Without :*, there's no way to tell the difference between "the
developer forgot, or slots were added in later", and "this really can
switch slots at runtime".
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-10 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-09 20:12 [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Remove cat/foo:* slot operator Brian Harring
2012-09-10 6:25 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-10 6:39 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2012-09-10 7:07 ` Brian Harring
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