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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:25:55PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> > A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. Using |
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> > the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the dbus-glib |
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> > dependency will be expressed with an atom such as dev-libs/glib:2:= |
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> > and the package manager will translate that atom to |
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> > dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is always used to |
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> > distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used to distinguish |
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> > ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good? |
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> Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32". |
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Hate the slash; just looks ugly to me (so starts the bikeshed). |
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Sans that naggle, notions fine however; not sure I'm a fan of people |
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being able to specify the exact ABI they need from an ebuild while |
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it's in source form, but may be of use for emul-* packages. |
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~harring |