The 9999 Builds are Live CVS Builds.
The default is to use the Snapshot builds which are getting pulled in.
-Rajat
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:37:45AM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong
> squawked:
> > emerge --update --deep --pretend world is pulling in
> > x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.999.050
> >
> > I currently have
> > x11-wm/enlightenment-0.16.8.14
> > installed, and was given to understand that the *.999 branch is the
> > devel branch. Looking at the ebuilds show that 0.16.8.14 has
> >
> > KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sh sparc x86
> > ~x86-fbsd"
> >
> > while 0.16.999.50 has
> >
> > KEYWORDS=""
> >
> > I don't have any /etc/portage/package.keywords entry.
> >
> > So why is 0.16.999.50 being pulled in?
> >
>
> Ah... nevermind. It was not a problem with portage. 0.16.999.50 is not
> even in the tree; it was added to the enlightenment overlay by
> vapier. Apparently it inherits from the enlightenment eclass, which
> has
>
> <snip>
> case ${EKEY_STATE:-${E_STATE}} in
> release) KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 sh sparc
> x86 ~x86-fbsd";;
> snap) KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64
> ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd";;
> live) KEYWORDS="";;
> esac
> </snip>
>
> Can anyone tell me what this is about? I know some people on this list
> use the enlightenment overlay: so why is it that the ebuilds for
> 0.16.999.50 and 9999, which don't look all that different to my untrained
> eye, which both inherit enlightenment, and thus both set the KEYWORDS
> using that snipplet above, will behave such that the former is trying
> to be installed on my system while the latter is not?
>
> W
>
> --
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>
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