>>>>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> 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. I stand corrected. However, that concerns only updates, but not the way the dependency is resolved when it is met for the first time. Ulrich