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On 3/18/08, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:21:49 +0100 |
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> See the section "Slot Dependencies" in chapter 9 of |
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> http://www.mailstation.de/pms.pdf . |
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Yeah I was already reading the updated parts, thanks |
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> In non technical terms: |
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> :* means, effectively, that the slot isn't locked at compile time, and |
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> that if you build a package against foo:2, it will work at runtime |
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> with foo:1 or foo:3 instead. Examples of this are many things that don't |
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> do C-style linking. |
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> := means, effectively, that the slot is locked at compile time. An |
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> example of this is a package that can use any version of 'db' -- the |
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> package can often compile against any version of db, but if you remove |
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> the slot of the db version against which the package was built, the |
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> package will break. |
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> It's used by Paludis as a hint to --uninstall and --uninstall-unused. |
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> For normal dependencies, Paludis takes the safe option and assumes that |
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> if something has a run dep upon foo, all installed slots of foo are |
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> used. Using :* dependencies relaxes that restriction to any slot. |
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> Using := dependencies changes that restriction to one specific slot. |
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Ok thanks, is there any specific GLEP already? Or is it just a Paludis proposal? |
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I am just wondering when this stuff will hit the tree. |
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Thanks for the explanation |
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> Ciaran McCreesh |
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