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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:17:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707250817.02338.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A60043.20208@gentoo.org>

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On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > That would make it
> > impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some
> > duplication.
>
> It isn't duplicated, description is per ebuild and could change,
> metadata is for the package as whole.

can you point out a package where this is actually needed let alone used ?  
none of our utilities expose the DESCRIPTION on a per-ebuild basis, only 
per-package
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-24 11:11 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 11:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-07-24 11:44   ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-24 11:54     ` David Shakaryan
2007-07-24 12:04     ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:22       ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:16     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 12:26       ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:09         ` Robert Buchholz
2007-07-24 13:18       ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 13:30         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 13:46           ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-24 13:55             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 14:11               ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-24 14:21                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 14:46                   ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 13:36     ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-25 12:17       ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2007-07-24 12:02 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:06   ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 12:14     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 12:18       ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:14         ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:53       ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-25 12:15       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-24 12:12   ` David Shakaryan

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