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From: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:35:58
Message-Id: 20070316234625.0426f809@maya
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:11:43 +0100
2 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > There's absolutely no reason to absorb every single version naming
5 > scheme on earth. Gentoo's does work nicely and more than we have
6 > would only be irritating to the user. Simply use _pre<datecode> or
7 > whatever fits, but extending our naming scheme is unneeded and
8 > pointless.
9
10 And of course there is the issue of how older Portage releases will
11 react to ebuild names that they don't understand.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o>