Petteri Räty wrote: > Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and > one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so > they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could > have icedtea-1.2:1.6.ebuildN and icedtea-1.2:1.7.ebuildN. This > particular situation can be worked around of course but it might also be > better to keep the slot in the file name any way because I often find > myself needing to know the slot of an ebuild (adjutrix -k of course > already does this for me quite nicely). > Debian-style epochs are a _much_ cleaner solution: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
(eix does quite nicely at displaying slots, too.)
