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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?
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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:45 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote:
> On Friday 27 May 2005 15:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > I'm just curious, but why exactly is a virtual needed?
> Well there are nine packages (and probably there can be others) which nee=
ds=20
> eject, and the eject commands are going to be quite a few if there isn't =
an=20
> "universal" eject as every os has its own way to eject a CD-Rom.
> So we'll have eject for linux, eject-bsd for freebsd (and maybe openbsd, =
don't=20
> know), eject-osx (and maybe eject-darwin) and eventual eject-solaris if t=
here=20
> will ever be a solaris port.
> Every kernel has its own syscalls, and using conditional deps for every k=
ernel=20
> on more than a couple of packages will surely be something annoying for=20
> maintainers.

OK... You sold me.

So create a virtual/eject... =3D]

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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