Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>> Nothing undefined here. A dependency without a slot means that all
>> slot values are acceptable. And all package managers interpret it in
>> the same way.

> Actually, Paludis interprets a lack of slot dependency as a "don't
> know", and assumes that it might be unsafe to switch slots at runtime
> in these cases.

I stand corrected. However, that concerns only updates, but not the
way the dependency is resolved when it is met for the first time.

Ulrich