On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Am Samstag, 9. November 2013, 02:19:32 schrieb Ben de Groot: >> On 8 November 2013 08:55, Rémi Cardona <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > Le jeudi 07 novembre 2013 à 10:44 +0100, Alexis Ballier a écrit : >> >> in short: if a package requires version X then the ebuild should require >> >> version X; it can be forgotten but it's a bug. >> > >> > That _is_ our policy. >> >> Since this thread was deemed necessary, apparently it's not. >> Or at least not clearly stated. >> > > It was not clear, and we should officially clarify it somewhere in the > documentation. > > (I also learnt as a recruit that "versionless dependency is fine if all > versions in the portage tree fulfill it". As a consequence I have been > regularly dropping version dependencies from ebuilds for simplification if the > excluded versions were long gone from the tree.)
For what gain? It seems to only allow breakage when updating old systems.
