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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:07:43
Message-Id: 20061011200436.GB19586@seldon
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42? by "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-"
1 On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:52:08PM -0400, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote:
2 > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 >
4 > >On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:30:03 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
5 > ><wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
6 > >| On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 19:44 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
7 > >| > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:36:16 -0500 Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o>
8 > >| > wrote:
9 > >| > | > ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:${SLOT}.
10 > >| > |
11 > >| > | I thought we were eventually going to use that format to specify
12 > >| > | deps with specific USE set.
13 > >| >
14 > >| > That's [use].
15 > >|
16 > >| I assume it is really [list of use] right?
17 > >
18 > >I think cat/pkg:slot[foo][-bar][baz] or opcat/pkg-ver:slot[foo][-bar]
19 > >was what was decided upon. That's how paludis does it, but it's easy
20 > >enough to tweak if people prefer something else...
21 >
22 > What's the point of all the square brackets? Is there some benefit over
23 > just [foo -bar baz]?
24
25 Been awhile, but the original syntax being pushed was
26
27 cat/pkg:slot1,slot2
28 cat/pkg[use1_on,-use2_off,-use3_on]
29
30 Somewhat prefer the spaces in use rather then commas personally also,
31 but implemented the syntax I recalled.
32
33 ~harring

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