Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Cc: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
Subject: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Remove cat/foo:* slot operator.
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:13:08
Message-Id: 1347221563-6865-1-git-send-email-ferringb@gmail.com
1 Introduced originally via 8b54be6a, this is effectively a noop for
2 gentoo ebuilds- nor is it providing any useful information to either
3 the dev, or the PM, thus remove it.
4 ---
5 dependencies.tex | 3 ---
6 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
7
8 diff --git a/dependencies.tex b/dependencies.tex
9 index 47c0261..96d22ac 100644
10 --- a/dependencies.tex
11 +++ b/dependencies.tex
12 @@ -288,9 +288,6 @@ delimited by a \t{/} character.
13 the following operators:
14
15 \begin{description}
16 -\item[*] Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime dependencies,
17 -indicates that the package will not break if the matched package is uninstalled and replaced by
18 -a different matching package in a different slot.
19 \item[=] Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime dependencies,
20 indicates that the package will break unless a matching package with slot and sub-slot equal to the
21 slot and sub-slot of the best installed version at the time the package was installed is available.
22 --
23 1.7.12

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Remove cat/foo:* slot operator. Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Remove cat/foo:* slot operator. Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>