On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:12:30 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and > one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so > they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we > could have icedtea-1.2:1.6.ebuildN and icedtea-1.2:1.7.ebuildN. This > particular situation can be worked around of course but it might also > be better to keep the slot in the file name any way because I often > find myself needing to know the slot of an ebuild (adjutrix -k of > course already does this for me quite nicely).
Allowing multiple slots per version would require significant VDB changes. Unfortunately we're still stuck with using VDB as-is whilst EAPIs 0, 1 or 2 hang around... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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