On Saturday 28 June 2008 17:03:13 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> PV=${PV/0./}
>
> to that new ebuild. This is the cleanest way to do it and doesn't require
> any variable name changes or any other changes to the ebuild regardless of
> what it does. Unfortunately it is also illegal per current PMS as PV is a
> read-only variable. Right now I feel that the gain of having PV read-only
> (catch a few bugs?) is much lower than the pain (extensive ebuild-dependend
> changes when the version scheme changes). Please comment.

I don't really see how making PV not read-only is any easier than using MY_PV. 
Did you expect changing PV to magically change P, PVR and PF too?

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Bo Andresen
Gentoo KDE Dev

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