On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:17 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hierarchy would be the following > > snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta .... And that's where the problems start. As you said yourself _snapshot is something universal so it doesn't really fit anywhere in the chain. Similar for _build, it usually runs parallel to normal versioning (a release also has a build number). Don't know about _dev, never seen a package where that would be useful myself. And as has been said, there are compability issues. At best older portage versions would ignore ebuilds using these new suffixes resulting in confused users, worst case stuff starts breaking. If you want to pursue this you should get some numbers of how many packages could actually make use of these new features, it simply isn't worth thinking about it for just a handful of packages. Marius -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
