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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:12:05
Message-Id: 20061021221444.fea8f550.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:40:45 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:35:06 +0200 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > | Still have the issue with the = operator though, not sure which way
7 > | to go there:
8 >
9 > The = operator (without a *) shouldn't ever be used in ebuilds or
10 > profiles. Not using the ~ operator is asking for disaster...
11
12 Have to disagree there. While in most cases you're right, there are/will be the usual exceptions, for example if you need a subset of ~. Not that it really matters for this discussion though.
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14 Marius
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