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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tarball doesn't have version -> portage problem
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 12:10:53
Message-Id: 20030507121055.GB2542@Daikan.pandora.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tarball doesn't have version -> portage problem by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:08:12AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > The problem would be to support multiple version of the same ebuild. And what
3 > to think of different packages wanting different, but similarly named, source
4 > files. I think a file renaming scheme might be the best way to handle the
5 > problems.
6
7 Perhaps this is a discussion for later (when 1.4 is out), since it involves
8 significant changes to solve problems which don't occur frequently.
9
10 Wkr,
11 Sven Vermeulen
12
13 --
14 Thanks to DRM, you know that something has been built in environment of
15 unspecified degree of security, from source you cannot check, written by
16 programmers you don't know, released after passing QA of unknown quality and
17 which is released under a license that disclaims any responsibility...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] tarball doesn't have version -> portage problem Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>