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From:	Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To:	gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Cc:	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>, Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Save dependencies as :=3 not :3=.
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:58:21
Message-Id:	`504F5179.2050809@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Save dependencies as :=3 not :3=. by Ciaran McCreesh

1	On 09/11/2012 12:33 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2	> Hrm. Although... We need to decide how a :3= dep in an ebuild is
3	> rewritten for VDB. Do we rewrite to to :3/3.3= or to :3=3/3.3? The
4	> latter has the advantage that we can tell just from the VDB what the
5	> original spec was.
6	>
7	> The way it's worded without the patch has the benefit that stuff on the
8	> left of the = is written by the developer, and stuff on the right by the
9	> package mangler.
10
11	Another advantage of the latter one is that when the sub-slot is
12	implicit, we can omit it from the rewritten dep and there's no ambiguity
13	about whether or not it's a rewritten dep.
14	--
15	Thanks,
16	Zac

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Save dependencies as :=3 not :3=.	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>