From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2GLmYvN000587 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:48:34 GMT Received: from [212.110.39.244] (helo=mail.pnpitalia.it) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBgNV-00044O-SU for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:48:34 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3571227563F for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:48:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05632-14 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:48:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [1.1.1.203] (unknown [1.1.1.203]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F6427563E for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:48:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4238A9AA.1000800@pnpitalia.it> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:48:26 +0100 From: Francesco Riosa User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: it, it-it, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE split ebuilds References: <423736A9.5040101@tomaw.org> <200503162229.21736.danarmak@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200503162229.21736.danarmak@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: 7f192558-a8d9-44e4-bb65-6c4dd7ab2be1 X-Archives-Hash: 064c5dbf12d3ab99fa3ea59a21bafdd2 Dan Armak ha scritto: >On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:25, Tom Wesley wrote: > > >>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. >> >> >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. > > > 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 ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list