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

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