On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Honestly, this situation looks like a perfect candidate for slotting > instead of adding a new feature. If SLOT is setup correctly between > ebuilds, you could check to be sure it's a specific SLOT. So in your > case, pkg-1.0.2[a-z] would be slotted with e.g. pkg-1.0.2g:1.0.2. > Anything depending on it would use `pkg:1.0.2`, and the pkg-1.0.3a > ebuild could use SLOT="1.0.3" and be called as a dependency via > `pkg:1.0.3`. Slotting means isolation (most of the time as a group and not necessarily on a parent version), but that's not always the case when you're just wanting to target a specific version. With the operator we could avoid unnecessary overkill using slots.
Also that would only apply when you're creating an ebuild.
