Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>
>>> Thing is: if you see sys-fs/ntfs-3g, is that an atom or a CPV? You
>>> don't know unless you actually check the tree.
>>>
>> I thought that was the whole point of =. That identifies CPV instead of
>> an atom.
>>
> If you look the DEPEND/RDEPEND portion of ebuilds,
> there are a lot of deps just declared as CAT/PN, with no version
> numbering.
>
> I think this might be a clearer version of what you are trying to say.
> 1. Given a string S that is 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX'
> 2. If S starts with an operator (=,>,>=,<=,<), then S MUST have a
> version number on the end. S is of the form: CAT/PN-PV(-PR), where
> both CAT and PN may contain a -. PR is optional, and must be of the
> form /^-r[[:digit:]]+$/
> 3. If S does not start with an operator, then S is of the form:
> CAT/PN, where CAT and PN may contain a -.
> 4. If the first character was a !, then remember that, strip the ! from
> S, and repeat from 2.
> 5. If you reach this point, you have something that is not valid.
>
> This means if somebody specified:
> sys-fs/ntfs-3g-1.516
> The CAT is 'sys-fs'
> and the PN is 'ntfs-3g-1.516'
> which does not exist.
>
> I can't see any logical problems with the above. It probably makes
> things a lot easier in many places.
>
>
That's exactly what I'm saying. CPV (Category/Package/Version) requires
=, >=, <, <= to begin it.
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