On Monday 26 December 2005 21:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:09:31 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, any library that changes ABI should use a different SLOT for each > revision. So SLOT depends should be able to replace the need for = and > ~ and < and <= dependencies entirely. Which is a good thing, since > those atoms make dependency resolution a general-case unsolvable > problem.
Well, it shouldn't be unsolvable. Choosing can be done with the following
process:
- Get the list of packages with the requested name.
- Sort the list from the newest version, to the oldest.
- Iterate over the packages:
- Apply all restrictions on the package (including exclusions). If the
package satisfies all, test it's dependencies recursively.
- If all dependencies match, this package matches the dependency. Continue
with the next depend atom.
- If no match, iterate the next package.
Paul
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