On Sunday 25 March 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On 2007/03/25, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5*
> > > ---
> > > app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.0
> > > app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.1
> >
> > you'd have to add more atoms to match 0.51.0, 0.52.1, 0.53.3, et
On 2007/03/25, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5*
> > ---
> > app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.0
> > app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.1
>
> you'd have to add more atoms to match 0.51.0, 0.52.1, 0.53.3, etc...
Yes and no...
On one hand, only 0.51.{0,1} exist atm, so a dep on
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> My suggestion is only about dropping the substring-match semantics, to
> replace it with something more restrictive, and that, it's doable for
> EAPI=0 if decided now.
i'd be on the fence about that ... i feel like some of your examples
On 2007/03/25, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =foo/bar-1.2.* has never been valid and still isnt valid in current
> portage ... i dont see a reason to force it in for EAPI=0 considering
> we've gotten by so far without it being a big deal
Sure. I've probably not been clear, i was n
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> While reading tosay's PMS draft, i've seen the following (§9.2.1), which
>
> reminded me this old discussion:
> > = Exactly equal to the specified version. Special exception: if the
> >version specified has an asterisk immediately fol
While reading tosay's PMS draft, i've seen the following (§9.2.1), which
reminded me this old discussion:
> = Exactly equal to the specified version. Special exception: if the
>version specified has an asterisk immediately following it, a string
>prefix comparison is used instead. When an as
>> and I'd assume users might get rather confused to answer questions
>> that are then thrown away later.
> I don't unterstand what do you mean by that...
>
It's a chicken and egg problem. Portage's job is to examine your systems
configuration (key here is USE flags) and the calculate dependences
