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| From: | Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. | ||
| Date: | Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:47:49 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAATnKFD5Hk7O3sFYGkPvPfWZXp9DFeBvFf07S3H=Hk7iAAD9rg@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. by konsolebox |
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| 1 | On 14 September 2015 at 16:35, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | > Many times we need to match packages like this: something-1.0.2a.* |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > But that expression is not allowed with ~ (only targets revisions) and |
| 5 | > neither with * (.*) is invalid. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 8 | What does =cat/pkg-something-1.0.2a* do? ( note, lack of . before * ) |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Why is that undesirable? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | IME, when you write ".*" you mean to write "*". |
| 13 | |
| 14 | That's what the "*" implies: version X or version X.Any |
| 15 | |
| 16 | https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#ranged-dependencies |
| 17 | |
| 18 | -- |
| 19 | Kent |
| 20 | |
| 21 | KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL |