Marius Mauch wrote:
> Ignoring possible semantic issues for the moment,

Please point them so I could fix them properly ^^

> I'd be against this simply because it would require the PM to be aware
> of the current revision of the repository and to transform it into a
> integer value (trivial for SVN, not so trivial for CVS for example).

You should be able to have a generic framework that just uses what the 
ebuild needs to get the sources, standardizing the live eclasses will be 
enough.

> Which in turn either means that the PM has to internally support the SCMs
> or support some new phase functions to extract the revision.

After some discussions with dev-zero, I think we'll need a new phase, 
possibly trigged by maint, before I was thinking about adding it to sync.

> Plus it has similar (unstated) transition issues as GLEP-54, just avoids
> a new comparison algorithm and the CPV vs. atom issue.

Hmm, give me more informations about your concern.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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