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