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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel-mod.eclass addition + clean up
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:46:55
Message-Id: 20041102194644.7fb6cd6f@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel-mod.eclass addition + clean up by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:40:31 +0100
2 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > This is where the question above (does portage use ${KV} internally?)
5 > becomes important. If portage uses ${KV} internally it can not be
6 > supplied by an eclass.
7 >
8 > Could one of the portage devs please shed some light on this?
9
10 A quick grep for KV and ExtractKernelVersion doesn't show any real usage
11 except for check_KV in ebuild.sh, but that function isn't used in
12 portage itself, so if any ebuilds/eclasses are using it they could be
13 changed to the eclass implementation in theory.
14
15 Marius
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