Michał Górny posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:03:18 +0200 as excerpted: > Dnia 2014-08-07, o godz. 15:37:07 Duncan <[email protected]> > napisał(a): > >> 6. dev-libs/bar<what?> -- if any version of bar is acceptable, and you >> need to rebuild bar only when changing slots (but not subslots). >> >> Can it happen? Covered if so? > > Long story short, PMS doesn't provide a way do this. I can't think of > any use case for that, and I think that is one of the reasons no syntax > for that was provided.
Makes sense. Good to have confirmation of what I suspected. >> Tho you did switch from dev-libs/foo in the initial statement to >> dev-libs/bar in the list of permutations. Normally, I take that to >> imply some relationship between foo and bar, thus the need for two >> labels instead of reusing the first, but if there is such a >> relationship here I don't see it. I am certainly confused but is it >> because there such a relationship that I'm simply not seeing (that >> possibly eliminates my sixth permutation), or did you "switch horses in >> mid-stream", as the saying goes? > > dev-libs/foo has a single slot. dev-libs/bar has multiple slots. MUCH clearer now. Thanks. =:^) (Hmm... my client's warning says I'm not verbose enough, too much quoted text for my reply. /That/ doesn't happen very often! After adding this note it's the "continue anyway" button. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
