On 11/02/2015 09:51 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 02:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:33:57 -0500
>> Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Followup question, which of these is less dumb?
>>>
>>> Option 1: berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4:*  <sys-libs/db-6:* )
>>
>> This doesn't mean what you think it means. A user who has db-3 and db-7
>> installed satisfies that dependency.
>>
> 
> Indeed, thanks.
> 

That's an interesting pitfall. I am pretty sure we have this kind of
syntax a lot in the tree. Might make sense to document it.

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