On 06/03/16 18:18, Michał Górny wrote: >> We should definitely include SLOTs in the allowed syntax. > > Why? What's their use? In fact, does <pkg/> have any use? Because as I > see it, it's just some fancy feature that could turn package name into > link to packages.gentoo.org and nothing more... >
Using SLOTs you have more precision in what you are writing. There are quite a number of packages where SLOTs differ a lot, e.g. grub. So clearly specifying a SLOT make sense to me. Take this example <use> <flag name="grub2">Install theme for <pkg>sys-boot/grub:2</pkg></flag> </use> Dropping the SLOT here doesn't make sense, as the content of the package with USE=grub2 won't work for grub-1. I can assume there are a number of packages where file formats or such changed between SLOTs, so it makes sense to specify it.
