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From: Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE split ebuilds
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:48:34
Message-Id: 4238A9AA.1000800@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE split ebuilds by Dan Armak
1 Dan Armak ha scritto:
2
3 >On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:25, Tom Wesley wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Hey
7 >>
8 >>I've seen several queries regarding KDE's new split ebuilds and the
9 >>version numbers used for specific packages. It seems that all of the
10 >>KDE 3.4 packages have been versioned as 3.4.
11 >>
12 >>Should kmail, kopete etc not be using their own version numbers with the
13 >>meta-packages being versioned based on the kde release number?
14 >>IMO this would make more sense, especially when reading the kopete website,
15 >>finding the latest version is 0.9.2 and then noticing that portage only
16 >>has 3.4.
17 >>
18 >>
19 >In my experience most KDE users have no idea offhand what the individual app
20 >versions are and which versions belong to which kde.org release. They'd be
21 >confused.
22 >
23 >If a lot of users told me I'm wrong, I guess I'd be willing to concede this
24 >point...
25 >
26 >BTW, what do other distros use?
27 >
28 >Another problem is that there are a few KDE devs who are the same: they don't
29 >bother to put real version numbers on their apps (and especially libs), and
30 >they stay stuck at 0.0.1, or don't always receive a version number upgrade
31 >when they change. I can't find an example offhand now, but I remember seeing
32 >such before...
33 >
34 >And a third problem: it'd make it much easier for us to make a versioning/dep
35 >mistake (think about updating 300 differently-schemed version numbers)
36 >without noticing.
37 >
38 >
39 >
40 one question only:
41 one of the point in having a splitted kde was that it make not necessary
42 upgrade all kde because of a update of a single program.
43 How do you can achive this mantaining all the packages at the same version?
44 maybe with -r? versioning ?
45
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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE split ebuilds Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>