On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:21:52 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The PMS describes package manager behavior required to support an > > ebuild repository. If I read the PMS correctly, SLOT-less > > dependencies have undefined behavior; this makes it so that if you > > have a different package manager using the same ebuild repository, > > it could interpret the dependencies completely different. > > Nothing undefined here. A dependency without a slot means that all > slot values are acceptable. And all package managers interpret it in > the same way.
Actually, Paludis interprets a lack of slot dependency as a "don't know", and assumes that it might be unsafe to switch slots at runtime in these cases. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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