On 31/10/16 08:31 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I would like to work on a major version depedencny specification > improvements as part of the next EAPI. For this reason, I'd like to > first gather some research on how developers are using the current > system, what they find efficient and what they find cumbersome. > > Therefore, I would like to ask the following questions: > > 1. How often do you find '~' useful? Do you think there should be > additional operators that ignore revision part?
The only time I have used this is when I've needed to synchronize the version of two inter-dependent packages, while wanting to allow the revision portion to vary. I have generally found it a lot more useful to use this in my various /etc/portage/ files than in ebuilds, though, especially package.accept_keywords > > 2. How often do you find '=...*' wildcard syntax useful? To what > purpose do you use it? Do you find its behavior confusing [1]? I find that this syntax is rather useful and often is necessary, due to it being difficult to properly define both minimum and maximun versions otherwise at times -- especially when I want to use the := or :0= slot operator. I don't find its behavior confusing once I became educated on how it actually works; I do recognize that it *is not* intuitive to the layman. > 3. Do you sometimes find yourself using '<'/'<=' specs that > accidentally match _pre/_rc/... versions? No, but that is likely just because I tend not to deal with dependencies that have _pre and _rc suffixes. > > 4. What are the common tasks that you find unnecessarily complex / > lengthy with the current version specifications? It is cumbersome to deal with limiting slots to a specific subset, when wanting to leverage slot-operator rebuilds right now -- effectively you need to have two atoms, one with :=, and a second set ||()'d with each of the slots that are compatible. > 5. Do you find any other parts of the current version dependency > specifications confusing? The as yet still impossible means of dealing properly with multiple packages that should either independently or when switching from one to another trigger a (sub)slot rebuild is quite vexing at times.
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