Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 19:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 
> >> virtual/emacs
> 
> > You made a new-style virtual with the same name as a package? This
> > can cause problems with binary package usage, as you will now end up
> > with two packages with the same "name" but different versions.
> 
> There are several others, BTW:
> 
>    {virtual,media-libs}/glut
>    {virtual,sys-devel}/pmake
>    {virtual,dev-db}/mysql
> 
> New-style virtuals are just *packages*, or did I get this completely
> wrong? So how is this situation different from two packages with the
> same name, but in different categories?

It isn't different.  That's the problem.  If you have two packages with
the same name, you have the same problem.

> > We likely won't be able to include emacs on Gentoo releases any more
> > because of this. Just thought I would let you know.
> 
> If you believe that this will make users happy, go ahead. :7

It has nothing to do with making users happy and everything to do with
our inability to work around this issue with the current binary package
support in portage.


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