Am Samstag, 9. November 2013, 18:02:50 schrieb Matt Turner: > > > (I also learnt as a recruit that "versionless dependency is fine if all > > versions in the portage tree fulfill it". As a consequence I have been > > regularly dropping version dependencies from ebuilds for simplification > > if the excluded versions were long gone from the tree.) > > For what gain? It seems to only allow breakage when updating old systems.
No loss (since systems not upgraded that long were not considered supported anyway), arguably small gain of more maintainable and readable dependency lists. I just learned "that's how it is done" when I started here. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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