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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 2/6] best_version: Explicitly specify the output format
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 11:50:15
Message-Id: 23272.21606.296243.529557@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 2/6] best_version: Explicitly specify the output format by Ulrich Mueller
1 >>>>> On Tue, 1 May 2018, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2
3 >> - matching package is installed, prints the category, package name and version of the highest
4 >> - matching version; otherwise, prints an empty string. The exit code is unspecified.
5 >> + matching package is installed, prints the category, followed by \t{/}, followed by package
6 >> + name, followed by \t{-}, followed by full version of the highest matching version;
7
8 > Do we really need this? I think that "category, package name and
9 > version" is pretty clear.
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11 And if we update the wording, I would suggest "the qualified package
12 name, version, and revision (if any)". This follows the definition
13 of PF in the variables table.
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15 The term "qualified package name" is explained in section 3.1.2 and in
16 the glossary.
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18 Ulrich