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drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:06:54AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> 
> 
>> autofs-4.0.0_pre9.ebuild should work. Maybe Daniel can document the naming
>> pattern somewhere on the net.
> 
> 
> There's some (old but mostly correct) documentation at the beginning of
> /usr/lib/python/portage.py that covers how the version numbers work.


Oooh, so Portage has python libraries to work with it, or is it done 
using python?