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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Comparison of GLEP 54 and 'live ebuild' proposal
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:12:24
Message-Id: 49B7E2DF.60805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Comparison of GLEP 54 and 'live ebuild' proposal by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:20:25 +0100
3 > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
4 >>>> [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0_pre20090310 [from svn master
5 >>>> r12345]
6 >>> That claim right there is enough to show that you haven't thought
7 >>> about this at all. Your proposal is lots of handwaving magic, most
8 >>> of it unimplementable. I suggest you put together a reference
9 >>> implementation before promoting this idea any further.
10 >> What's wrong is U that should be R beside that there isn't much
11 >> magic...
12 >
13 > The U isn't the problem. The svn revision is the problem. You need to
14 > consider how the package manager would get the revision.
15 >
16
17 I know, if you are re emerging you have those information, if you are
18 updating you won't have them. That's why either the U or the revision
19 information is wrong.
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21 lu
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25 Luca Barbato
26 Gentoo Council Member
27 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
28 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero