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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:17 -0400 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hierarchy would be the following |
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> snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta .... |
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And that's where the problems start. As you said yourself _snapshot is |
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something universal so it doesn't really fit anywhere in the chain. |
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Similar for _build, it usually runs parallel to normal versioning (a |
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release also has a build number). Don't know about _dev, never seen a |
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package where that would be useful myself. |
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And as has been said, there are compability issues. At best older |
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portage versions would ignore ebuilds using these new suffixes |
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resulting in confused users, worst case stuff starts breaking. |
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If you want to pursue this you should get some numbers of how many |
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packages could actually make use of these new features, it simply isn't |
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worth thinking about it for just a handful of packages. |
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Marius |
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