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On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:35:47 +0300 |
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Alex Alexander <wired@g.o> wrote: |
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> > The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a "better" |
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> > version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a "better" version |
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> > than 1.1-r300. Indicating packages where this kind of strangeness |
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> > happens allows manglers to know that things that are usually true |
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> > about the relationship between slots and versions no longer hold, |
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> > and that in these specific cases it should consider slots to be |
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> > heavily independent. |
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> You already have this info, it's called a "slot dependency". |
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It's not a property of individual packages that happen to depend upon |
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the problematic package. The property holds or not for a package |
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regardless of whether anything depends upon it. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |