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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:28:33
Message-Id: 200701061225.49301.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO* by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:42, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > what does it matter if all of the ebuilds declare latest or the eclass
4 > > declares latest ?
5 >
6 > Weren't we going to allow declaring "1.10 1.9" soon, so that we could stop
7 > using "latest" ?
8
9 no, that was not the reason at all for the new syntax
10
11 the reason was so in the *eclass* you could translate latest to "1.10 1.9" and
12 drop the need of executing that helper function in local scope
13 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO* "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>