Ryan Hill wrote:
> So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary
> depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely
> no correlation with the revision number of the upstream codebase.  I'm
> sorry, but that's unacceptable. :/

You'd like to have the cflags and ldflags embedded in the name for the 
same reason?

> If a user reports a bug in package-1.1_pre6, how do you determine what
> revision he has installed?  How can you even tell it's an scm ebuild?

You can. The generated ebuild must have a reference to the checkout.

> If I want to report a bug I find to upstream, how to I know what
> revision I have?  Yes there are hacks like ESCM_LOGDIR, but they're
> different for every SCM and you have to opt-in to use them.  Most
> people don't even know about them.

The generated ebuild contains pretty much everything you need to fill a 
bugreport.

lu

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