Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:55:47
Message-Id: 51EFB20F.1000002@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2 by Pavel Volkov
1 On 24/07/2013 12:52, Pavel Volkov wrote:
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5 > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com
6 > <mailto:yohan.pereira@×××××.com>> wrote:
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8 > On 24/07/13 at 02:00pm, Pavel Volkov wrote:
9 > > It initially suported set arithmetic (you could writes expressions
10 > like
11 > > "@set1+@set2/@set3"), I wonder why it was dropped :)
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13 > Wow thats intresting. What could the / operator possibly do in the case
14 > of sets?
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17 > I'm not sure about the correct notation but I think it was intersection.
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20 Difference actually :-)
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22 I can't think how intersection could be generally useful in portage
23 sets. Maybe it was in the first draft just for completeness?
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28 Alan McKinnon
29 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com