From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3DiZ-0004mZ-62 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:44:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l06Fh15r002620; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:43:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l06Ff72c028615 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:41:08 GMT Received: from home.wh0rd.org (pool-141-154-238-235.bos.east.verizon.net [141.154.238.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E990E64423 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16095 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2007 10:39:20 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 6 Jan 2007 10:39:20 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO* Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:41:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200701061210.33600.alonbl@gentoo.org> <200701060521.48630.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070106154710.3d423082@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20070106154710.3d423082@c1358217.kevquinn.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4931911.1MICDH0DAi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701061041.06762.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5c89e62e-de22-4615-9731-f8d2a701b440 X-Archives-Hash: f1108bdc0d8540e677673e17f6643911 --nextPart4931911.1MICDH0DAi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 06 January 2007 09:47, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:10, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > Is there any reason why not setting "latest" as default for > > > WANT_AUTO* variables? > > > > > > I believe that an ebuild should set these variables only if there is > > > some exception. > > > > that seems like a not-too-shabby idea actually > > Not sure. Would we run the risk that working ebuilds would start to > fail when newer autotools versions arrive? which is no different from the current behavior ... we're sticking "latest"= =20 into all of our ebuilds now besides, if code doesnt work with the latest autotools, it should be fixed = =2E..=20 it should not force older versions =2Dmike --nextPart4931911.1MICDH0DAi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARZ/DEkFjO5/oN/WBAQItnxAAlH8w+AvFzSOen9dSj64b8ziC4Pwr2R4X 03YJx7W/CfaLP6gcXzdD0xqIKzUZRj5X7JzBHqlgrltGvB1upsRXg/DQIJosFcDr +wzrXuMKyMTTKop63m25FXB05C9ClpufKV+H8GVbJ2h5PUcCUKkqwAtHmxIZ8JR0 nfPME09SUAj5aKMW1cNM40Hp1XkMK2HhjfseRTRXlemLiBHI645caLq880Cf9/OT doTO/QdFvuYcHCwz434uHDe3PqYAdU8hxX0IJYrmLNYv0feQNLFA0QsyzKfWYIHc +jYCHhDwIwBQHyDY422Qm3p3szBcHobW6fiiXJmdhMZtzti/RmyrezlpdW49Mf94 ZxYYxYThp5mEoGkkcBWrn/T2QX7feUtrCZ7ArBh91JeWeZAd2dk5HPZJ8cMwF5to mKrLZjCqOhO/f2aDUUdNHm3DpJDdZ5Z3nUEOS6BRgAdaZc1Ebq/J+TO2UHlV8noS q2dAKiH5TW9qadrOhU5ITKcN+hZ4nOKsEHDWYB5Alj1o3GX+ClROB0Ffn6TD6HIr HG4smXDpck9f4vSB73K91sipsP/Ntfbmbz5Cy92KUaFNz5A5003pbE2AriEIbHPe K3lU/qi9w2xS00+H2arhrAQv/M6v7e4JwmnJsdIR/23HQl/3RxHfVJExgxYWgngf ohzgpdaBfPg= =s6Lt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4931911.1MICDH0DAi-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list