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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:46:45
Message-Id: 22006.45978.230274.630502@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. by Kent Fredric
1 >>>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Kent Fredric wrote:
2
3 > Portage:
4
5 > emerge --ignore-default-opts -vpO =dev-lang/perl-5.2*
6
7 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8
9 > [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.22.0:0/5.22::gentoo USE="berkdb doc
10 > gdbm -debug -ithreads" 0 KiB
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12
13 > Paludis:
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15 > cave resolve -1 -0 "*/*" =dev-lang/perl-5.2*
16 > Done: 4 steps
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18 > These are the actions I will take, in order:
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20 > (nothing to do)
21 > [...]
22
23 Interesting. So Portage follows the wording of the spec (prefix string
24 matching), whereas Paludis behaves like (IMHO) the spec should have
25 been written.
26
27 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>