From 3dd799ea88096d9a87ba0826086689bfca1da8f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexis Ballier Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:04:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Equals slot operator: Clarify/specify when to store the slot/sub-slot part. --- dependencies.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dependencies.tex b/dependencies.tex index a800264..75fc90f 100644 --- a/dependencies.tex +++ b/dependencies.tex @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ identically to the plain equals slot operator. \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 +pair of the best installed version of packages used to match a dependency. 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 -- 2.9.0