From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HoPpk-0006cX-2h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 20:10:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GK9rs0013459; Wed, 16 May 2007 20:09:53 GMT Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (66-191-187-123.dhcp.gnvl.sc.charter.com [66.191.187.123]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4GK7q5G011121 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 20:07:53 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C082480E2 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:56:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id t1q8GxVHg2Te for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:56:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.100.51] (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2398B248079 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:56:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <17995.17641.192440.220599@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <17993.36648.37167.198946@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1179335734.23409.3.camel@workbox.quova.com> <17995.17641.192440.220599@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:07:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1179346063.7620.4.camel@workbox.quova.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e3eca6aa-c33a-4059-a00e-86b93633fcad X-Archives-Hash: 8ed934a6ef2e9abb7a3a2fe6402a08b7 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list