On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:54:39 +0100 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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. > > So we should basically encourage people to explicitly state ':*' when > they mean that, correct? Because I can tell you that right now many > people don't use that because they see it as redundant.
That was the point of adding :*, yes. Repoman was supposed to be updated to catch DEPEND+RDEPEND deps which could match multiple slots and which didn't specify either := or :*. AFAIK this never actually happened. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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