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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2024-07-06 11:44:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2024-07-07 10:18:37 +0200 |
| commit | dc3b51bf149f174aeed15860185aba8cce1728ff (patch) | |
| tree | 1216ee2c0da7d965489c3bf6c554b915a983141c | |
| parent | Makefile: Explicitly list LaTeX source files (diff) | |
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Reported-by: Jannik Glückert <jannik.glueckert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | dependencies.tex | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/dependencies.tex b/dependencies.tex index 47c96c3..c1f7d6a 100644 --- a/dependencies.tex +++ b/dependencies.tex @@ -349,15 +349,16 @@ the following operators: the slot and sub-slot of the best version installed as a build-time (\t{DEPEND}) dependency is available. \item[slot=] Indicates that only a specific slot value is acceptable, and otherwise behaves - identically to the plain equals slot operator. + identically to the \t{=} operator. The specified slot must not contain a sub-slot part. \end{description} -To implement the equals slot operator, the package manager will need to store the slot/sub-slot -pair of the best installed version of the matching package. This syntax is only for package manager -use and must not be used by ebuilds. The package manager may do this by inserting the appropriate -slot/sub-slot pair between the colon and equals sign when saving the package's dependencies. The -sub-slot part must not be omitted here (when the SLOT variable omits the sub-slot part, the package -is considered to have an implicit sub-slot which is equal to the regular slot). +To implement the equals slot operators \t{=} and \i{slot}\t{=}, the package manager will need to +store the slot/sub-slot pair of the best installed version of the matching package. This syntax is +only for package manager use and must not be used by ebuilds. The package manager may do this by +inserting the appropriate slot/sub-slot pair between the colon and equals sign when saving the +package's dependencies. The sub-slot part must not be omitted here (when the \t{SLOT} variable +omits the sub-slot part, the package is considered to have an implicit sub-slot which is equal to +the regular slot). Whenever the equals slot operator is used in an enabled dependency group, the dependencies (\t{DEPEND}) must ensure that a matching package is installed at build time. It is invalid to use |