Hi Fabian, On 11/27/2017 11:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just finished removing all few remaining interrevisions (-r0.XY) > ebuilds from the prefix tree. > > In the next Portage release, interrevision support will be removed.
Please don't! > I believe we no longer need to modify ebuilds so often, and keeping this > feature is now a deviation from mainline which we better avoid. Although I've not managed yet to submit as GLEP or so, having interrevisions is quite important to me - and for a meta distribution in general I believe. In the end I really would like to see this being supported by mainline portage at least, and probably PMS too. While Gentoo Linux as the mainline distribution should not use interrevisions for their ebuilds, any derived distribution will add need for one more level of revisions - much like we have done in Prefix! In fact, I do derive a distribution from Prefix, and the only reason I can live without another level of interrevisions for now is that I have commit rights to the Prefix level of interrevisions. Heck, even Gentoo's "-rX" already is nothing else than the first level of interrevisions on top of the upstream releases, no? So could we start (to think/discuss about) a route towards multiple interrevision levels (with mainline support) instead, please? Many thanks! /haubi/
