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Michał Górny posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:03:18 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Dnia 2014-08-07, o godz. 15:37:07 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |
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> napisał(a): |
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>> 6. dev-libs/bar<what?> -- if any version of bar is acceptable, and you |
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>> need to rebuild bar only when changing slots (but not subslots). |
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>> Can it happen? Covered if so? |
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> Long story short, PMS doesn't provide a way do this. I can't think of |
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> any use case for that, and I think that is one of the reasons no syntax |
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> for that was provided. |
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Makes sense. Good to have confirmation of what I suspected. |
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>> Tho you did switch from dev-libs/foo in the initial statement to |
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>> dev-libs/bar in the list of permutations. Normally, I take that to |
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>> imply some relationship between foo and bar, thus the need for two |
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>> labels instead of reusing the first, but if there is such a |
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>> relationship here I don't see it. I am certainly confused but is it |
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>> because there such a relationship that I'm simply not seeing (that |
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>> possibly eliminates my sixth permutation), or did you "switch horses in |
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>> mid-stream", as the saying goes? |
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> dev-libs/foo has a single slot. dev-libs/bar has multiple slots. |
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MUCH clearer now. Thanks. =:^) |
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(Hmm... my client's warning says I'm not verbose enough, too much quoted |
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text for my reply. /That/ doesn't happen very often! After adding this |
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note it's the "continue anyway" button. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |