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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:24:28
Message-Id: 46A5EE25.6070801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
2 > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300
3 > Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
4 >> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION
5 >> atoms?
6 >
7 > Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include
8 > various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION.
9 >
10
11 I did say in my original mail that there are ebuilds building dynamic
12 DESCRIPTION variables but the my question was that does anything make
13 use of their dynamic nature. I think for example eix only looks at the
14 latest.
15
16 Regards,
17 Petteri

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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>