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 1HgSlJ-0005nz-40 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:41:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3OLdmXV015900; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:39:48 GMT Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslc-082-082-163-098.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.163.98]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3OLYm22007690 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:34:49 GMT Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id 493E8281A9; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:33:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 (2007-02-13) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.0.40]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CE65F281A9 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:33:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:35:56 +0200 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 Message-Id: <20070424233556.7aeaa8b2.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200704242129.37877.kugelfang@gentoo.org> References: <200704242111.44663.kugelfang@gentoo.org> <200704242129.37877.kugelfang@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-mingw32) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0ff3add5-5b03-47ea-bbe4-400365b3ab77 X-Archives-Hash: 95b4193d3bbddfb06eccb708fa9f79c8 On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:29:37 +0200 Danny van Dyk wrote: > The rationale behind this is the following: > > * certain combinations of suffixes don't make sense. That's highly subjective. > * only recent Portage versions support it. I wouldn't call portage-2.1 "recent" as it's been stable for almost a year. The only thing that changed recently (like three months ago or so) was that repoman no longer blocks such versions (see bug #165349). Marius PS: Though I disagree with the reasoning I don't have a problem with the decision as long as it's just temporary. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list