Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:18:33
Message-Id: 20105.28590.214235.162223@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-im/qutecom: metadata.xml ChangeLog qutecom-2.2_p20110210.ebuild by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > We could just ban upper-bounded dependencies that aren't done by
4 > slots inside ebuilds in future EAPIs...
5
6 That's probably going to far, as there are valid usage cases.
7 For example, "|| ( bar <foo-2 )", if your package needs some feature
8 that was split off from package foo to package bar in version 2.
9
10 Ulrich