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From:	Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Problems and limitations of the current version dependency specs
Date:	Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:40:50
Message-Id:	`11a01ebb-c3df-aeec-be9a-000b3be9a9ab@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Problems and limitations of the current version dependency specs by "Michał Górny"

1	On 10/31/2016 08:31 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2	>
3	> 4. What are the common tasks that you find unnecessarily complex /
4	> lengthy with the current version specifications?
5
6	Slotted version ranges, for example:
7
8	berkdb? ( \|\| ( sys-libs/db:5.3
9	sys-libs/db:5.1
10	sys-libs/db:4.8
11	sys-libs/db:4.7
12	sys-libs/db:4.6
13	sys-libs/db:4.5 ) )
14
15	The verbosity is to avoid something like
16
17	( >sys-libs/db-4.4 <sys-libs/db-5.4 )
18
19	which could be satisfied by installing both sys-libs/db-4.4 and
20	sys-libs/db-5.4 since they're in different slots.