Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: wired@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:34:34
Message-Id: 20120922183216.6fbd2d50@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies by Alex Alexander
1 On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:07:38 +0300
2 Alex Alexander <wired@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sep 22, 2012 10:58 AM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Hello,
7 > >
8 > > The current dependency syntax:
9 > >
10 > > [VERSION-OP] PACKAGE-NAME ["-" PACKAGE-VERSION]
11 > >
12 > > suffers a few problems:
13 >
14 > The syntax you are describing is used all over portage, not just
15 > dependencies. Some examples are the /etc/portage/package.* files,
16 > has_version or exact version matching when emerging.
17
18 Yes, having it in all cases would be good.
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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