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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:56:06
Message-Id: 201509142157.03483.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. by Ulrich Mueller
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4 Am Montag, 14. September 2015, 15:11:35 schrieb Ulrich Mueller:
5 >
6 > > The question is now... can we fix the spec?
7 >
8 > I could find only two instances of string prefix matching in the tree:
9 >
10 > - autotools.eclass depends on "=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*" (with
11 > WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1).
12 > - media-video/nvidia-settings has "=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-3*".
13
14 How *could* you overlook the Perl virtuals? :)
15 (about 150 instances of =dev-lang/perl-5.22* or similar)
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17 However, these are standardized enough that any search/replace should be safe,
18 given something has to be fixed. (I haven't followed the esoteric part of the
19 discussion.)
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21 (Unless someone insists on a revision bump for each dependency modification -
22 which is where I'd like to reply with an emphatic "Do it yourself then.")
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24 - --
25 Andreas K. Huettel
26 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
27 dilfridge@g.o
28 http://www.akhuettel.de/
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