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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=live (instead of PROPERTIES=live-sources or RESTRICT=live)
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:11:09
Message-Id: 20080901161056.749a6cc8@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=live (instead of PROPERTIES=live-sources or RESTRICT=live) by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:08:07 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Does this (and previous similar threads) suggestion means that
4 > > portage will not support GLEP 54? Or how it'll be related with said
5 > > glep?
6 >
7 > It seems like GLEP 54 is intended to fill a similar gap in the
8 > ebuild metadata. With PROPERTIES=live, it doesn't seem like GLEP 54
9 > will be much use since it seems like you can achieve essentially the
10 > same results by using PROPERTIES=live together with the existing
11 > version suffixes such as _pre and _p (to control ordering).
12
13 Er, no you can't. There is no way of using existing version components
14 to get the correct ordering.
15
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17 Ciaran McCreesh

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