>>>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > Am Montag, 14. September 2015, 15:11:35 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: >> I could find only two instances of string prefix matching in the tree: >> >> - autotools.eclass depends on "=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*" (with >> WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1). >> - media-video/nvidia-settings has "=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-3*".
> How *could* you overlook the Perl virtuals? :) > (about 150 instances of =dev-lang/perl-5.22* or similar) Nope, these use the asterisk for matching of a version component range. So there is no string prefix ending in the middle of a component. In other words, =dev-lang/perl-5.22* matches version 5.22.0, so no version component is cut into pieces. Which is different for =sys-devel/autoconf-2.1* matching version 2.13. Ulrich
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