Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Current portage well designed, but badly used

[John Nilsson <john@milsson.nu>]

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On sön, 2004-11-28 at 05:44 +0000, Ed Grimm wrote:
> There may be others which are more problematic.  I haven't seen Gentoo
> using them, but many kernels are distributed with -[a-z][a-z]\d+
> versions, which indicate which alternate maintainer managed the
> additional patches beyond the standard kernel version - which is newer,
> -mm5 or -bk15?  The world may never know.  (It's only determinate for
> specific kernel versions, and frequently it's an apples and lemonade
> comparison, as they don't address the same issues.)

Would it be to much overhead if the ebuilds just linked to previous
versions instead? Like the ineed stuff of the init scripts. This way no
no version parsing at all would be needed.

-John

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