Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:19:02
Message-Id: 20120922161342.59b6e20a@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:55:08 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > The fore-mentioned problems could be solved through introducing a more
4 > natural dependency syntax:
5 >
6 > PACKAGE-NAME [[*WSP] VERSION-OP [*WSP] PACKAGE-VERSION]]
7
8 If we'd rather not break backwards compatibility and add in all kinds
9 of whitespace-related mess, another option is cat/pkg[>=2.3].
10
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12 Ciaran McCreesh

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