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? -- Bo Andresen Gentoo KDE Dev
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