On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:33:50 +0200, Willie WY Wong wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:43:00PM +0100, Penguin Lover David W Noon
> squawked:
> > In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly
> > Portage.
> > 
> > If a slotted package is in the world file without a slot
> > specification, Portage should really take that to mean "all
> > installed slots are required" rather than "any slot will do" -- or,
> > worse still, ignore the world entry and fall back to package
> > dependencies.
> 
> I disagree. Portage has always been very clear about this: atoms
> without slot or version specification means precisely **any
> slot/version will do**.

In that case, it is a design flaw in Portage.

> The behaviour is entirely consistent between
> the command line, ebuilds, the world and set files, as well as other
> things in the profile (per package use flag and keyword
> specifications). 

When I set a flag in package.use without a version specification, it
applies to *all* versions of that package that support that use flag.
I have been doing this for quite some years for several slotted
packages, e.g. wxWidgets.

When I manually stabilize a package in package.accept_keywords without
a version specification, *all* unmasked versions of that package become
stable.  I do this for only one package: paludis.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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