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| From: | "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:19:17 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201312081819.40449.dilfridge@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? by Tom Wijsman |
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| 1 | Am Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2013, 17:56:12 schrieb Tom Wijsman: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > When our defaults force us down such path, that can't be good and it |
| 4 | > affects the quality of our Portage tree; so, this makes me wonder, can |
| 5 | > we change the default from :* to :0? What do you think? |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | |
| 8 | I see the point, but I have my doubts on retroactively changing things. |
| 9 | (It's a global change where we would have to be very very very careful |
| 10 | regarding interactions with eclasses and so on.) |
| 11 | |
| 12 | How about changing this in the next EAPI instead? |
| 13 | |
| 14 | E.g., in EAPI=6, if no slot dependency is given in a dependency specification, |
| 15 | default to :0 |
| 16 | |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Andreas K. Huettel |
| 20 | Gentoo Linux developer |
| 21 | dilfridge@g.o |
| 22 | http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies default to accept any slot value acceptable (:*), can we default to :0 instead? | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |