On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:17:44 +0200 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" wrote: > On 6/2/11 7:00 PM, Dane Smith wrote: > > I'm going to guess you've already tried this, but just in case. Did > > you try asking him to version things more... sanely? I've had to do > > that a few times and people are usually surprisingly receptive. > > Right, that's a good idea. Have you visited > ? The message on that page is quite > hostile towards distros: Sorry, I haven't seen this either. I thought you mean a VCS when you mentioned a 'live' ebuild. Now that I see how the ebuilds look like, I have only one idea. It's simple yet ugly. You could have a 'versioned' ebuild linked to the actual SRC_URI, and bump it whenever you notice the upstream tarball changes. This would allow users to have the package upgraded automatically. I think it would be similar to the situation we had with adobe-flash packages. -- Best regards, Michał Górny