On Saturday 24 December 2005 04:50, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:25, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:04:32 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > wrote:
> > | kde-libs/kde:3
> > | ^^^ need any kde, with slotting enabled.
> > |
> > | kde-libs/kde:3,4
> > | ^^^ need any kde, slotting 3 or 4.
>
> I'd prefer to not have this last one. It can be done as "|| (
> kde-libs/kde:3 kde-libs/kde:4 )" whereas all other atom constructs are
> already at their most minimalistic form.
>
> > Will foo-bar/baz:3* or foo-bar/baz:3.* work?
>
> SLOT is currently an arbitrary string (without spaces) so general matching
> of "*" might be useful. Of course, there's no restriction of not using "*"
> in SLOTs at the moment either...

What about using the "&& ( kde-libs/kde:4 >=kde-libs/kde-4.0.1 )" syntax, 
where the && would indicate that the atoms are to be folded, and consider a 
single package that should satisfy them instead of the default where it would 
require two packages.

Paul

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