Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:38:44
Message-Id: 20150914173824.0cd2f816@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:46:34 +0200
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > Interesting. So Portage follows the wording of the spec (prefix string
4 > matching), whereas Paludis behaves like (IMHO) the spec should have
5 > been written.
6
7 Not so fast!
8
9 Paludis has two different behaviours for =*, depending upon the context
10 in which they're used. When parsing a user-supplied dependency
11 specification, it uses the sane behaviour. When parsing something
12 that's got an EAPI context, it uses the weird behaviour.
13
14 You can't test this from the command line...
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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