On Tuesday 02 November 2004 23:40, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> You cut out my next line saying "Does portage use ${KV} internally?"
> which was also part of the point ;)

I cut it out because I don't know the answer. Either way I just did a quick 
grep and don't see portage using it internally at all. If this is the case 
(hoping a portage developer will confirm), how does this affect your view?

> Anyways, what I was trying to say was - if 729 ebuilds currently rely on
> knowing the version of the installed Linux kernel source I think this
> information should be available through portage itself, and not an
> eclass.

729 ebuilds is only a small fraction of our tree. A quick comparison to 
eutils, which appears to be inherited in over 5000 ebuilds.
More stats: those 729 ebuilds fall in 110 packages, which makes up about 1.4% 
of the number of packages of our tree. It would be a lot of work, but 
wouldn't have to be done all at once (plus some of these already inherit 
kernel-mod). Thoughts?

Daniel



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