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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:30:01
Message-Id: 48523E07.4090801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees by "Tiziano Müller"
1 Tiziano Müller wrote:
2 > @lu_zero: I don't think we can get away without having the pm know what a
3 > live-ebuild exactly is and when to re-install it.
4
5 a live ebuild is a template, every time it has to be evaluated it acts
6 as a normal ebuild with the version mentioned and _preN+1 postponed,
7 preN is the highest preN present, if present.
8
9 > (Just in case you were thinking of letting the pm auto-masking/unmasking
10 > foo_p${value+1}: this would be hackish and ugly).
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12 Uh?
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17 Luca Barbato
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