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On 22:21 Fri 12 Sep , Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> I do know how to get around it, I did state that in my original email. |
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> As it happens we are having a discussion on gentoo-java mailing list on |
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> whether we should use icedtea-<openjdk build>.<icedtea version>.ebuild |
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> or have different packages for the different slots. One of the upstream |
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> authors argues for the icedtea6 approach but to me it seems a bit |
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> Debianish but I agree with him on that 6.09.1.2 is not that clean either. |
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I also agree that it's not clean. Perhaps you could encourage your |
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friendly upstream developers to have a versioning system that doesn't |
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suck? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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