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On 03/02/2017 04:58 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> Is it really abusing ? |
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> := deps in DEPEND only would also make sense for e.g. code generators |
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Slot operator dependencies are ignored in DEPEND: |
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Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime |
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dependencies, indicates that the package will break unless a matching |
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package with slot and sub-slot equal to the slot and sub-slot of the |
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best installed version at the time the package was built is available. |
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In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND. That |
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makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will break" |
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rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's not an error |
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to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy everyone doing |
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DEPEND="${RDEPEND}". |
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