On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:16:24 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The kernel ( along with QA ) has reported that the portage generated > $KV is sometimes quite horribly wrong. They would like us to retire > the kernel generated $KV, ebuilds that need $KV should inherit > linux-info, unless they are themselves a kernel-module, in which case > they should inherit linux-mod. > > This also consolidates all the kernel version parsing nastiness into 1 > place ( the eclass ) which means less work for us! > > The QA team will run testing against the tree to locate incorrect uses > of $KV, granted the KV value is probably wrong right now for some > users, we still need to migrate them over. > > We may need to retain the $KV variable for EAPI 0 portage, but I think > that could actually depend on how bad the migration really is. Hmm, I thought we removed that crap long ago already... Let it die I say. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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