On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:29:52PM -0800, Trevor Harmon wrote: > I'm curious about the Depends operators: <<, <=, =, !=, >>, >=. They > all make sense except for << and >>. I was always taught that < means > "strictly less than" and << means "much less than", a subjective > definition that depends on the context. In Fink, however, << is taken > to mean "strictly less than", correct? Is there some particular > reason that the < symbol was not used? It's a little confusing to me.
"It's not math, it's Debian." >From http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html The relations allowed are <<, <=, =, >= and >> for strictly earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and strictly later, respectively. which applies to package-version dependencies in all "Depends-style" fields in fink. Fink also uses operators in its conditional syntax in all fields that support it, with the addition of the != operator. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
