On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:04:17 -0400
Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> That's exactly what I'm saying. CPV (Category/Package/Version)
> requires =, >=, <, <= to begin it.

Nope. Something that starts with an operator is a versioned atom. A CPV
is used in other places when a specific version is required, for
example in package.provided. I guess people aren't that familiar with
the term as it's mostly an API thing, on the user-interface side (or
ebuild-interface side) one generally doesn't deal with CPVs.

Basically an atom is a selector that returns a list of CPVs, and by
prefixing a CPV with an operator you get an atom, but they are still
completely separate things.

Maybe that helps to clear some of the confusion.

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Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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