On Friday 01 July 2005 14:28, Dan Armak wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 12:15, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 June 2005 23:11, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > Instead of 'exit 1', qt_min_version should use die. I use that in
> > > deprange and it does work inside $DEPEND.
> >
> > Wouldn't this be a good time to implement actual dependency ranges in
> > portage.
>
> Wouldn't any time be a good time? :-)
>
> > Btw. I normally use the following hack that portage might
> > actually be made to understand:
> >
> > DEPEND="<x11-libs/qt-4.0 !<x11-libs/qt-3.2.1"
>
> This depends on the fact that we don't actually have different-slotted
> versions of QT <3.2.1 in portage. If we still had eg qt 2.x, this would
> block it. So it's a temporary hack that'll only work for QT based on
> the fact that all qt 3.x versions have the same slot.

I agree. What would be necessary is next to the "||" operator an "&&" 
operator that would select a single package that has both conditions, but 
that does not restrict what is installed.

Paul

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