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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:01:51
Message-Id: 46A5F659.3050609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Petteri Räty wrote:
5 > Marijn Schouten (hkBst) kirjoitti:
6 >> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would make it
7 >> impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some duplication.
8 >
9 > <shortdescription>
10 > </shortdescription>
11 >
12 > sounds like something for EAPI-1
13 >
14 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186454
15
16 right, we can just get rid of DESCIRPTION
17
18 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
19 > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300
20 > Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
21 >> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION
22 >> atoms?
23 >
24 > Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include
25 > various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION.
26
27 and put details like this in <longdescription>.
28
29 Marijn
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