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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:54:39 +0100 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Actually, Paludis interprets a lack of slot dependency as a "don't |
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> > know", and assumes that it might be unsafe to switch slots at |
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> > runtime in these cases. |
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> So we should basically encourage people to explicitly state ':*' when |
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> they mean that, correct? Because I can tell you that right now many |
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> people don't use that because they see it as redundant. |
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That was the point of adding :*, yes. Repoman was supposed to be |
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updated to catch DEPEND+RDEPEND deps which could match multiple slots |
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and which didn't specify either := or :*. AFAIK this never actually |
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happened. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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