On Friday 18 February 2005 16:00, Pavel Volkovitskiy wrote:
> With CVS i would like to compile KDE_3_4_BRANCH (for example), not HEAD
With classic cvs ebuilds that would mean maintaining several sets of cvs 
ebuilds, one per kde branch (the HEAD set becoming the next branch set).

It'd be a lot easier to support USE=cvs or FEATURES=cvs or just $KDECVS, that 
would make the eclasses fetch source from cvs, leaving src_compile etc alone. 
(Although we'd have to deal with patch management somehow... A lot of patches 
won't apply against a moving CVS target, or would already be applied 
upstream). But some people might complain as that'd put kde-cvs functionality 
in portage and make it even easier for users to abuse it :-) (Of course it'd 
be completely unsupported, but when did that ever stop anyone?)

In any case, I don't intend working on kde cvs ebuilds again until after 3.4.0 
and maybe not then. Although, they'd be a big help with a release like 4.0, 
which ought to include many differences from 3.x.

> I think it's will be great if the package version will be depended on
> build time
Can't be done with current portage.

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