Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE split ebuilds

[Francesco Riosa <francesco@pnpitalia.it>]

Dan Armak ha scritto:

>On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:25, Tom Wesley wrote:
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>>Hey
>>
>>I've seen several queries regarding KDE's new split ebuilds and the
>>version numbers used for specific packages.  It seems that all of the
>>KDE 3.4 packages have been versioned as 3.4.
>>
>>Should kmail, kopete etc not be using their own version numbers with the
>>meta-packages being versioned based on the kde release number?  
>>IMO this would make more sense, especially when reading the kopete website, 
>>finding the latest version is 0.9.2 and then noticing that portage only 
>>has 3.4.
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>In my experience most KDE users have no idea offhand what the individual app 
>versions are and which versions belong to which kde.org release. They'd be 
>confused.
>
>If a lot of users told me I'm wrong, I guess I'd be willing to concede this 
>point...
>
>BTW, what do other distros use?
>
>Another problem is that there are a few KDE devs who are the same: they don't 
>bother to put real version numbers on their apps (and especially libs), and 
>they stay stuck at 0.0.1, or don't always receive a version number upgrade 
>when they change. I can't find an example offhand now, but I remember seeing 
>such before...
>
>And a third problem: it'd make it much easier for us to make a versioning/dep 
>mistake (think about updating 300 differently-schemed version numbers) 
>without noticing.
>
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one question only:
one of the point in having a splitted kde was that it make not necessary 
upgrade all kde because of a update of a single program.
How do you can achive this mantaining all the packages at the same version?
maybe with -r? versioning ?

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