From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IDJRD-0008A3-O4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:24:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6OCMfpa023067; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:22:41 GMT Received: from smtp-3.tky.hut.fi (smtp03.tky.fi [82.130.63.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6OCIkes017108 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:18:46 GMT Received: from [82.130.46.196] ([82.130.46.196]) by smtp-3.tky.hut.fi (SMSSMTP 4.1.9.35) with SMTP id M2007072415184511208 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:45 +0300 Message-ID: <46A5EE25.6070801@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:45 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070620) 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION References: <46A5DE60.50708@gentoo.org> <46A5EB50.8080109@gentoo.org> <20070724131415.45370b27@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <20070724131415.45370b27@snowflake> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig748DB9B7BC9C6256EF3C80D4" X-Archives-Salt: 6da7f03d-7d05-41a4-9f49-de698f5e42e1 X-Archives-Hash: 62f20113977d3d0f96d385c8a46133a9 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig748DB9B7BC9C6256EF3C80D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300 > Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION >> atoms? >=20 > Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include > various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION. >=20 I did say in my original mail that there are ebuilds building dynamic DESCRIPTION variables but the my question was that does anything make use of their dynamic nature. I think for example eix only looks at the latest. Regards, Petteri --------------enig748DB9B7BC9C6256EF3C80D4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGpe4lcxLzpIGCsLQRAi7eAJ93Mz9TUevSiqpfF4I6pzdsALRRCgCfYvl0 szwPQ/N25we5+8FHQ0NmarE= =kcty -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig748DB9B7BC9C6256EF3C80D4-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list