On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:25:55PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:53 -0700 > Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote: > > A dependency atom will have optional SLOT and ABI_SLOT parts. Using > > the dbus-glib depedency on glib:2 as an example [1], the dbus-glib > > dependency will be expressed with an atom such as dev-libs/glib:2:= > > and the package manager will translate that atom to > > dev-libs/glib:2:=2.32 at build time. So, ':' is always used to > > distinguish SLOT deps, and ':=' is always used to distinguish > > ABI_SLOT deps. Is that syntax good? > > Here's a nicer syntax: no ABI_SLOT variable, and SLOT="2/2.32".
Hate the slash; just looks ugly to me (so starts the bikeshed). Sans that naggle, notions fine however; not sure I'm a fan of people being able to specify the exact ABI they need from an ebuild while it's in source form, but may be of use for emul-* packages. ~harring
