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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:14:58 | ||
| Message-Id: | 21156.50471.613516.395616@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? by "Andreas K. Huettel" |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > How about changing this in the next EAPI instead? |
| 4 | |
| 5 | > E.g., in EAPI=6, if no slot dependency is given in a dependency |
| 6 | > specification, default to :0 |
| 7 | |
| 8 | PMS just provides a mechanism, but doesn't prefer one SLOT value over |
| 9 | another. Such a change would introduce policy into PMS which is not |
| 10 | the right way to go. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | If a dependency on a specific SLOT value is needed then it should be |
| 13 | explicitly specified in the ebuild. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Ulrich |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> |