On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:00, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:25, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > the reason was so in the *eclass* you could translate latest to "1.10
> > 1.9" and drop the need of executing that helper function in local scope
>
> Right, but I thought the other one, too..
>
> Well, I suppose it would do little harm at this point to default to latest,
> and be done with that, and allow specifying 1.10 1.9 in the future (when
> mips and ppc would keyword the wrapper) so that we cover that base too.

why not just get rid of the idea of "latest" ?  is there a scenario where 
autotools would be inherited but not actually used/added to DEPEND ?  i guess 
that's what this all comes down to really ...
-mike

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