if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then ESVN_REPO_URI="svn://roy.marples.name/openrc/trunk" inherit subversion else SRC_URI="http://roy.marples.name/downloads/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2 mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2 http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/files/${P}.tar.bz2 http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/dist/${P}.tar.bz2" fi why? are we testing for a live ebuild in the versioned ebuild? Reproducible: Always
It's so the live and versioned ebuilds don't have to differ, making it easier to bring changes from one to the other.