On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Justin Hallett wrote:

okay %e is great thanks...and I agree, but I think it will be used, I have
a number of rc pkgs.


Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yes there is: %e (see PkgVersion.pm, line 136).

Cause I think it'd be nice to have if we start using Epoch more and more.

Well, epochs should only be used as a last resort, normally...

yes. epochs should be a *very* last resort, because they can be very confusing to people who are just looking for version numbers, and once they are used for a package, they will be forever used with it, unless the package name changes.


please don't use them lightly...

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