In that case, wouldn't it be better for uv to reject unconstrained? Gentoo (or any packager, such as homebrew / nix) is too far downstream for that. Presumably allowing unconstrained seemed to make sense in some circumstances at some point?
(There are all kinds of legitimate reasons to use an unconstrained dependency, including locking it separately and also trying to help other downstream Linux distros with their own bespoke packaging problems.)
> that’s why you should use a semver range, as is the default, instead of leaving it unconstrained