On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:42, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > what does it matter if all of the ebuilds declare latest or the eclass
> > declares latest ?
>
> Weren't we going to allow declaring "1.10 1.9" soon, so that we could stop
> using "latest" ?

no, that was not the reason at all for the new syntax

the reason was so in the *eclass* you could translate latest to "1.10 1.9" and 
drop the need of executing that helper function in local scope
-mike