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Hi Michał, |
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> Therefore, I would like to ask the following questions: |
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> 1. How often do you find '~' useful? Do you think there should be |
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> additional operators that ignore revision part? |
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Very useful for virtuals (especially perl virtuals :), since you can pin one |
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virtual to one upstream version and allow Gentoo patch revisions. |
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> 2. How often do you find '=...*' wildcard syntax useful? To what |
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> purpose do you use it? Do you find its behavior confusing [1]? |
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Mostly not so useful. However, ... |
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* Libreoffice versions 5.x tend to depend on one specific version of support |
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libraries, e.g. libixion-0.y ... We take care to have equal visibility and |
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synchronous stabilization there, otherwise dependency resolution becomes a |
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mess. |
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* I'm using it in libreoffice-bin to pin dependency versions when I need a |
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specific ABI of a library and I can't do that via a fixed :x/y subslot. |
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> 4. What are the common tasks that you find unnecessarily complex / |
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> lengthy with the current version specifications? |
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Version ranges, obviously. |
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> 5. Do you find any other parts of the current version dependency |
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> specifications confusing? |
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Not really. |
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If we do make a bigger overhaul we might revisit the DEPENDENCIES variant |
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though. Better than HDEPEND, BDEPEND, ØDEPEND and €DEPEND... |
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Also I would really really like to see IUSE_RUNTIME implemented so we can |
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finally get away cleanly from the unrealistic "no useflags for optional |
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runtime deps" policy. |
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Cheers, Andreas |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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