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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting version-related tree policies
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:13:51
Message-Id: 22557.45263.417702.352719@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting version-related tree policies by Kent Fredric
1 >>>>> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016, Kent Fredric wrote:
2
3 >> I would assume 9999 to be high enough, even if you use multiples of
4 >> 100 to label the slot. Or do you expect having more than 100 slots
5 >> for Perl?
6
7 > Well, the desire is for the -r<x> (or similar) part correspond to
8 > something representative of which version of Perl the virtual is an
9 > "underwriter" for.
10
11 This would contradict existing policy already, which says that the
12 revision component must not be used for upstream versions:
13 https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/index.html
14
15 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting version-related tree policies Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>