On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:39:46 +0530
Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 17:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > Don't care. Let's fix the problems we have *now* using solutions
> > > that we can agree upon, rather than try to foist solutions that a
> > > reasonably large population of developers *don't* like (even after
> > > extended debate) to solve problems that don't exist yet.
> > 
> > No, let's fix it so we don't have to do the whole thing again in
> > another year or two.
> 
> I see nothing about the current problem that merits the fooling around
> with the ebuild extension. I've listened to and considered all the
> arguments that have been made, and I still stand by my opinion that it
> an unclean solution (meaning, we don't need to rehash those arguments
> again here).

You have yet to provide an alternative for fixing the arbitrary and
pointless version format restrictions that are currently in place.

> I think it makes far more sense to work towards agreeing on a solution
> rather than restating the same arguments every 6 months and reaching
> the same impasse.

We only have one viable solution.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh