On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote: > On 11/15/10 19:31, Marc Espie wrote: > > So now we have > > *DEPENDS = pkgspec:pkgpath > > in an uniform way, with pkgspec: completely omitted when it's the > > default stem-* > > > > The idea is to remove as much noise as possible and it's already working > > great > > > > Compare: > > > > -RUN_DEPENDS= :desktop-file-utils-*:devel/desktop-file-utils \ > > - :shared-mime-info->=0.21:misc/shared-mime-info > > > > +RUN_DEPENDS= devel/desktop-file-utils \ > > + shared-mime-info->=0.21:misc/shared-mime-info > > > > > > but it might still be a bit too complex, especially since the most frequent > > spec is "this stem past that version", so STEM- > > +RUN_DEPENDS= devel/desktop-file-utils \ > > + STEM->=0.21:misc/shared-mime-info > > > > still a bit of line noise. Dropping STEM- altogether looks unnatural > > +RUN_DEPENDS= devel/desktop-file-utils \ > > + >=0.21:misc/shared-mime-info > > > > let's tack the number at the end instead: > > +RUN_DEPENDS= devel/desktop-file-utils \ > > + misc/shared-mime-info>=0.21 > > So you drop the dash after the stem path here? While I do find that > notation at least as readable, if not more so, it could possibly cause > confusion vs the "shared-mime-info->=0.21:..." notation. > There is no stem in there. A pkgpath is something different.
For a pkgspec, the - does makes some sense, because we go from screen-3.0.2 to screen->=3.0.2 but in misc/screen there's never been any -, so misc/screen>=3.02 should be okay. That said, it's likely that more verifications for valid specs might save some people some head-scratching...
