On 22:21 Fri 12 Sep     , Petteri Räty wrote:
> I do know how to get around it, I did state that in my original email.  
> As it happens we are having a discussion on gentoo-java mailing list on  
> whether we should use icedtea-<openjdk build>.<icedtea version>.ebuild  
> or have different packages for the different slots. One of the upstream  
> authors argues for the icedtea6 approach but to me it seems a bit  
> Debianish but I agree with him on that 6.09.1.2 is not that clean either.

I also agree that it's not clean. Perhaps you could encourage your 
friendly upstream developers to have a versioning system that doesn't 
suck?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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