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| author |   Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> | 2021-12-23 20:17:28 +0100 |
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| committer |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2022-02-21 05:21:44 +0000 |
| commit | 5ef9e1d93aad7538c0c30cd076e956c2947ef4d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8867be4650e40ad0ce28bad66b33e72055675fc9 /general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml | |
| parent | general-concepts/dependencies: indent xml for better raw readability (diff) | |
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general-concepts/dependencies: improve explaination of slot operators
The section previously had hard to parse sentences like "[…] and that
your package should be rebuilt if the version best matching the
runtime dependency is updated to a version with a different slot or
subslot" for the := operator.
This commit attempts to improve the readability of the section.
The change superseeds my proposed change in bug #739858.
Thanks to Sam James for reviewing this. :)
Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/739858
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual/pull/259
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml b/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml index 1abebc8..ef27ac2 100644 --- a/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml @@ -387,18 +387,19 @@ or <uri link="::general-concepts/slotting#Sub-Slots">sub-slot</uri>: <ul> <li> - <c>:=</c> means that any slot is acceptable, and that your package should be - rebuilt if the version best matching the runtime dependency is updated to a - version with a different slot or subslot; + <c>:=</c> means that any slot is acceptable. Additionally indicates that + your package should be rebuilt if the version best matching the runtime + dependency is updated to a version with a different slot or subslot. </li> <li> - <c>:*</c> means that any slot is acceptable, and explicitly declares that - changes in the slot or sub-slot can be ignored; + <c>:*</c> means that any slot is acceptable. Furthermore, this slot + operator explicitly declares that changes in the slot or sub-slot can be + ignored. </li> <li> - <c>:SLOT=</c> means that only the 'SLOT' slot is acceptable, and that your - package should be rebuilt if the version matching the runtime dependency is - updated to another version with this slot but with a different subslot; + <c>:SLOT=</c> means that only the 'SLOT' slot is acceptable. It otherwise + behaves identically to the <c>:=</c> operator. That is, the package must be + rebuilt if the sub-slot of the dependency changes. </li> <li> <c>:SLOT</c> means that only the 'SLOT' slot is acceptable, and that changes |