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Jeremy Hanmer wrote:
> 
> On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:
> 
>>
>> has_version only returns 0 or 1 depending whether the package is
>> installed or
>> not, so it's useless in this case.  best_version would be a better
>> alternative,
>> however that alone won't solve the problem.
> 
> 
> That's all that's really needed since all you'd care about in this
> instance is the existance of one of 2 or 3 major versions.  Just look
> for >=sys-libs-4.0 then 3.0 and so-on, compiling for the first one you
> find.

That would be the incorrect way of going about it.  As I said in my previous
post, use versionator.eclass.  One call to best_version and one call to
get_major_version is all that's needed.

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