From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (symphony-05.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.37]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 996EFAC478 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:38:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 19557 invoked by uid 666); 1 Jun 2002 05:38:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rattus.Localdomain) (203.59.169.250) by iinet.net.au with SMTP; 1 Jun 2002 05:38:28 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rattus.Localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDFF15DD for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:38:28 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual problem From: Bill Kenworthy To: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <004301c20905$f6976a80$6ec7a8c0@heronent.com> References: <004301c20905$f6976a80$6ec7a8c0@heronent.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.1.0.99 (Preview Release) Date: 01 Jun 2002 13:38:28 +0800 Message-Id: <1022909908.17447.9.camel@rattus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 6f1d8bdb-f3a2-4f9f-9735-e3b89bf6a10d X-Archives-Hash: 07490250e748aab471f66d3eaaca710e True, this email is the most detail I have found about "virtual" stuff yet, I cannot find any doco's on this which is why the emails. It appears to be tied up with the opengl mess - that is most of the programs are complaining of opengl, glu or glut (by the way this is a 2 month old install that "suddenly" started complaing of this - so whats changed? I see that there are some odd comments about Mesa not playing nicely in the files with nvidia, but I dont have an nvidia card so I'll unmask and install Mesa and hope that works. In the meantime, what about xmms, xscreensaver and a number of others which suddenly will not build becuase something virtual has poppped up - they have not always been this way! I did a fresh install into a vmware VM over the last couple of days and cannot finish the install as that is now complaining of the same problems. Starting to look like something is screwy with the portage tree. BillK On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 08:47, Ed Heron wrote: > Actually, that doc doesn't fully explain virtuals. It mentions them, then > says it will explain them later, but does not. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean P. Kane" > To: > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:12 PM > Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] virtual problem > > > Virtual/* means that it isn't an exact package and you simply need > something that gives you that service (and is who's ebuild is setup to > claim to provide that service). > > i.e. there are a variety of system loggers like metalog, syslogd, > syslogd-ng and they all provide virtual/logger, so that any one of them > will suffice for some thing that depends on virtual/logger. Where-as if > you depended on syslogd, the ebuild would fail for someone using > metalog. > > I believe this is covered more here: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html > > Sean > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Kenworthy [mailto:billk@iinet.net.au] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 16:28 > To: gentoo-dev List > Subject: [gentoo-dev] virtual problem > > > I have not been able to do an "emerge --update world" for a couple of > weeks now due to various vritual/?????????? packages. e.g., xmms > depended on virtual/opengl. I unermerged it and ended up emergeing a > number of other packages in the process of getting it back. Now it is > done one of those packages, qt, complains of missing virtual/glu when I > try and emerge world. > > Can someone explain this whole virtual thing and how to fix, or give a > reference in the docs? > > BillK > > * I have noted a couple of other emails along these lines, but havent > seen any fixes yet. > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev