* Michał Górny schrieb am 07.09.15 um 17:16 Uhr:
> Dnia 2015-09-07, o godz. 14:35:07
> Marc Schiffbauer <msch...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> 
> > I'd like to propose a new kind of DEPEND syntax: <>
> > 
> > This would mean "Any version but the one specified" and is usefull when 
> > you have a dependency on another package but a single version of it is 
> > not compatible for example.
> > 
> > I currently have this case in app-backup/obnam which is not compatible 
> > to =dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0
> > 
> > In DEPEND I now have this:
> > 
> >   !=dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0
> >   || ( <dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0 >dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0 )
> > 
> > which does the trick, but I think much more straight forward would be:
> > 
> >   <>dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0
> > 
> > which would be the exact opposite of =dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0
> 
> What if you want to exclude two versions? This looks like an even worse
> case of the > + < -dep problem.
> 
> > An alternate syntax would be (but I'd prefer the former):
> > 
> >   !=dev-python/paramiko-1.13.0
> 
> This is a blocker syntax, so it's used already.

OK thanks. And I ignored that fact in one of my other mails. So I guess 
this ends up in: Never mind ;)



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