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John R. Graham wrote: |
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> I occasionally run across a package version dependency issue that cannot |
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> be elegantly solved by the current dependency syntax. Every time I've |
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> come across this, it's boiled down to a range. For example, package |
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> some-cat/foo has the following versions in the tree |
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> some-cat/foo-4.0.0-r2 |
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> some-cat/foo-4.1 |
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> some-cat/foo-4.1.1 |
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> some-cat/foo-4.1.2-r2 |
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> some-cat/foo-4.2.1-r5 |
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> some-cat/foo-4.3 |
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> some-cat/foo-4.4 |
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> Now, package other-cat/bar has a runtime dependency on some-cat/foo but |
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> it only works with the 4.1 and 4.2 slot. The other-cat/bar ebuild was |
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> originally composed before the some-cat/foo-4.3 package came out, so the |
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> ebuild developer coded the runtime dependency as |
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> >=some-cat/foo-4.1 |
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> But, when some-cat/foo-4.3 came along, it got messy. The only possible |
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> solution today that I know of is |
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> ( || =some-cat/foo-4.1* =some-cat/foo-4.2* ) |
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> and this potentially grows over time as new versions stabilize. |
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If 4.1 and 4.2 are really SLOTs as you say, then this || syntax makes |
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good sense. Of course would be better with real slot deps :) So your |
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example is not so ideal. But nevermind. |
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> What I'd really like to be able to code is a range with an AND operator, |
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> something like this |
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> ( && >=some-cat/foo-4.0 <some-cat/foo-4.3 ) |
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Syntax shouldn't repeat package name twice. It wouldn't make much sense |
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to use it with >=some-cat/foo-4.0 <some-cat/bar-4.3 would it? |
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> So, my question is, does this make sense? Is something like this |
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> planned for some EAPI>0? Would it be appropriate for me (a non-dev) to |
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> file a bug and link it to SpanKy's "EAPI-1 tracker" bug? |
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There's been bug 4315 for ages, so maybe just reassign it to PMS? |
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Vlastimil Babka (Caster) |
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Gentoo/Java |
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