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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:45:40
Message-Id: 49C6DB53.7020505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV} by "Alin Năstac"
1 Alin Năstac wrote:
2 <snip>
3 > Fine, then remove $PV from patch name and use it in any ebuild version
4 > you want. Or just decouple the patch version from the ebuild version
5 > (foo-bar-r1.patch sounds OK to me).
6 >
7
8 What exactly is your problem that you are trying to solve here? Posting
9 to the community to stop doing something without providing reasons to
10 stop is not going to go anywhere. I like having the PV in the patch
11 name..so, you haven't convinced me.
12
13 -Jeremy

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