Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:41:17 +0200 > Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > := only makes sense when something is both a DEPEND and an RDEPEND. >> > Actual behaviour, for Paludis, is that it rewrites := deps to :=blah >> > when writing to VDB any time it can, and leaves anything it can't >> > as := deps. Verifying sanity of := use is left to developers and >> > the QA tool. >> >> ... and the spec. > > The spec's well defined. It just tells you how := works, not how to use > it in a sensible manner. Pretty much the same as for everything else. Sorry, but I disagree.
> >> > The only sensible thing you can do with multiple matches on := slots >> > (and ||=, if that route is taken) is to take the slot of the best >> > matching installed version, and require that ebuilds do that too. In >> > real world cases, this works just fine. >> > >> so, ebuilds should use best_version instead of has_version for >> example. That's what I meant and what I miss in the kdebuild-1 >> spec :-) > > Generally, it "just works", because packages are usually fairly good at > picking up the best installed version themselves anyway. But yes, if > you have to pass a version manually to a package, best_version is the > way to do it. And what about a function to tell the PM explicitly which slot of a dependency has been used (as an alternative)? Or should that decision always be left to the PM? (that's something I'd expect to be in the PMS) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
