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From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:18:08
Message-Id: f84u0h$mrc$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty schrieb:
2 > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
3 >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300
4 >> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION
6 >>> atoms?
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 Because it spuriously assumes that only the latest one is relevant and
17 it therefore doesn't do any ${PV} substitution (which is correct
18 behavior under this assumption).

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