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.