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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 08 Dec 2013 20:26:56 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20131208202644.125cc309@googlemail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? by Ulrich Mueller |
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| 1 | On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:21:52 +0100 |
| 2 | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > > The PMS describes package manager behavior required to support an |
| 4 | > > ebuild repository. If I read the PMS correctly, SLOT-less |
| 5 | > > dependencies have undefined behavior; this makes it so that if you |
| 6 | > > have a different package manager using the same ebuild repository, |
| 7 | > > it could interpret the dependencies completely different. |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Nothing undefined here. A dependency without a slot means that all |
| 10 | > slot values are acceptable. And all package managers interpret it in |
| 11 | > the same way. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Actually, Paludis interprets a lack of slot dependency as a "don't |
| 14 | know", and assumes that it might be unsafe to switch slots at runtime |
| 15 | in these cases. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> |