[gentoo-dev] why do different ebuilds have the same version number?

[Imran Sher Rafique]

I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a rant.

Summary
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Is it accepted practice to allow for changes in an ebuild without changing the
ebuild version number?


Background
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After emerging the latest stable ruby (1.8.2-r1), I found that ruby could not
find some of its modules. The default library paths hardcoded into ruby were
incorrect. To demonstrate:

$ ruby -e '$LOAD_PATH.each {|j| puts "#{j}" }'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
${exec_prefix}/lib/ruby/1.8
${exec_prefix}/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux
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