-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John R. Graham wrote: > I occasionally run across a package version dependency issue that cannot > be elegantly solved by the current dependency syntax. Every time I've > come across this, it's boiled down to a range. For example, package > some-cat/foo has the following versions in the tree > some-cat/foo-4.0.0-r2 > some-cat/foo-4.1 > some-cat/foo-4.1.1 > some-cat/foo-4.1.2-r2 > some-cat/foo-4.2.1-r5 > some-cat/foo-4.3 > some-cat/foo-4.4 > > Now, package other-cat/bar has a runtime dependency on some-cat/foo but > it only works with the 4.1 and 4.2 slot. The other-cat/bar ebuild was > originally composed before the some-cat/foo-4.3 package came out, so the > ebuild developer coded the runtime dependency as > >=some-cat/foo-4.1 > > But, when some-cat/foo-4.3 came along, it got messy. The only possible > solution today that I know of is > ( || =some-cat/foo-4.1* =some-cat/foo-4.2* ) > and this potentially grows over time as new versions stabilize.
If 4.1 and 4.2 are really SLOTs as you say, then this || syntax makes good sense. Of course would be better with real slot deps :) So your example is not so ideal. But nevermind. > What I'd really like to be able to code is a range with an AND operator, > something like this > ( && >=some-cat/foo-4.0 <some-cat/foo-4.3 ) Syntax shouldn't repeat package name twice. It wouldn't make much sense to use it with >=some-cat/foo-4.0 <some-cat/bar-4.3 would it? > So, my question is, does this make sense? Is something like this > planned for some EAPI>0? Would it be appropriate for me (a non-dev) to > file a bug and link it to SpanKy's "EAPI-1 tracker" bug? There's been bug 4315 for ages, so maybe just reassign it to PMS? - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGchsotbrAj05h3oQRAjg8AJ46/ofZuK6EI+LnQcTivJDzOjgj4gCfWNRe a56SGjmxI16imQxdkfRRoQI= =bu3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
