Hi,
  I've been meaning to ask - what's with the new double name thing in eix?

  Why is a package now shown as

~2.6.19-r1:2.6.19-r1

instead of just

~2.6.19-r1

How does this help me, or what isit trying to accomplish? As a user
type it sure seems less readable now.

Thanks,
Mark

lightning ~ # eix gentoo-sources
* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
    Available versions:  !2.4.32-r7:2.4.32-r7 2.6.15-r1:2.6.15-r1
2.6.16-r13:2.6.16-r13 2.6.17-r8:2.6.17-r8 ~2.6.17-r9:2.6.17-r9
~2.6.18:2.6.18 ~2.6.18-r1:2.6.18-r1 2.6.18-r2:2.6.18-r2
2.6.18-r3:2.6.18-r3 2.6.18-r4:2.6.18-r4 ~2.6.19:2.6.19
~2.6.19-r1:2.6.19-r1
    Installed:           none
    Homepage:            http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
    Description:         Full sources including the Gentoo patchset
for the 2.6 kernel tree

lightning ~ #
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