Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:59:38
Message-Id: 20011030225912.1648f4bd.karltk@prosalg.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage/Baselayout on CVS/rsync by Dan Armak
1 On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:57:40 +0200
2 Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Tuesday 30 October 2001 18:10, you wrote:
5 > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:13:07PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
6 > > > Explanation: if an app needs e.g. >=qt-x11-2.2, you can't specify it
7 with
8 > > > * deps alone.
9 > >
10 > > =x11-libs/qt-x11-2.2*
11 >
12 > But, that wouldn't be satisfied with e.g. 2.3.1. While the app needs
13 2.2<x<3.
14
15 Those series are what the new [] syntax is supposed to handle. I will
16 attempt to clarify the details about this with drobbins, then whip up a
17 sample implementation that people can play with.
18
19 However, I will be away from friday this week to wednesday next week,
20 going on a pre-exam vacation in London. If anybody else here is around
21 London this weekend, I'm open to a meeting ;)
22
23 Kind regards,
24
25 Karl T