>>>>> On Thu, 4 May 2017, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Atom Prefix Operators [> >= = <= <] > Sometimes you want to be able to depend on general > versions rather than specifying exact versions all the time. > Hence we provide standard boolean operators:
> Examples: > >media-libs/libgd-1.6 > >=media-libs/libgd-1.6 > =media-libs/libgd-1.6 > <=media-libs/libgd-1.6 > <media-libs/libgd-1.6 Irrelevant here. The package list in bugs is not a dependency specification, but just a list of qualified package names and versions. > PMS does not define what a valid atom looks like, except that it > somehow doesn't describe atoms to begin with, apparently because > that has yet to be replaced with something better, or is perhaps up > to the PM to define. [...] PMS got rid of the ambiguous "atom" term 10 years ago, in favour of "package dependency specification": https://bugs.gentoo.org/174322 That makes it much more clear where it is supposed to be used, namely in dependencies. (Imagine that! :-) > PS: It might be a week before I feel like reading the "don't touch > my stuff" cabal again, so please don't mind if I happen to touch > your stuff while you work out what's wrong with your attitude. Not going to comment on this. Ulrich
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