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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> 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?
If we can agree to have those values writable we could define a function that
will handle resetting all those too.
Marijn
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