On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:07:51PM -0700, Antonello Cruz wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:28:21PM -0700, Dan Price wrote:
> >>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 at 05:23PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:12:53PM -0700, Dan Price wrote:
> >>>>On Thu 26 Jun 2008 at 05:01PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >>>quite apart from that, if pkg version numbers be constrained to integer
> >>>tuples then I think we'll be better off having pkg version numbers bear
> >>>no resemblance to the packaged software's version numbers.  I strongly
> >>>recommend that; alternatively, make pkg version numbers strings (but I
> >>>agree, implicit numeric ordering has desirable properties).
> >>Feel free to make a concrete proposal by getting involved and working on
> >>the code.  As it stands now, you're describing a project other than this
> >>one.
> >
> >I'm proposing no code changes, thus I have none to contribute.  I'm
> >proposing a change in use.
> I am really curious how this can be achieved without any code changes... 
> Am I missing something?

Making pkg version numbers bear no resemblance to those of the packaged
software is a manifest create-/update-time task.
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