On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:34:21 +0200
Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@...> wrote:

> Ryan Hill schrieb:
> No, the idea behind ESCM_LOGDIR was different.
> If you just want the revision of the current installed thing, you can 
> grep through the environment.
> 
> ESCM_LOGDIR mainly aimed to provide a history of revisions you 
> installed. So that you can then tell upstream "Hey, I have this
> revision installed and it doesn't work, but this revision worked.".
> So it is definitely related, but not the same.

Well, true.  But it does give you the latest version you installed. ;)
It was the only example I could think of (and one I use constantly).

gcc is nice enough that i can do `gcc -v` and get

gcc version 4.3.2-pre20080612 built 20080614 (Gentoo SVN ebuild) rev.
136782 ()

but not everything works like that.


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