From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:52:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17995.17641.192440.220599@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179335734.23409.3.camel@workbox.quova.com>
>>>>> 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?
> 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
Ulrich
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-15 10:44 [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages Ulrich Mueller
2007-05-15 10:51 ` Jakub Moc
2007-05-15 10:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-15 11:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-05-15 10:53 ` Jakub Moc
2007-05-15 13:25 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-05-16 17:19 ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-16 21:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
[not found] ` <46499076.6090401@gentoo.org>
2007-05-15 11:06 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-05-15 11:12 ` [gentoo-dev] Marking virtuals stable Petteri Räty
2007-05-23 11:21 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-05-30 19:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-05-31 9:28 ` Michael Cummings
2007-05-31 13:36 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2007-05-31 15:41 ` Graham Murray
2007-05-31 13:52 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-05-31 16:07 ` Michael Cummings
2007-05-16 17:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-16 17:52 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2007-05-16 20:07 ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-16 21:23 ` [gentoo-dev] Packages with same name was -> " William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-05-16 22:37 ` Thilo Bangert
2007-05-16 22:46 ` Jakub Moc
2007-05-16 23:04 ` Carsten Lohrke
2007-05-17 8:54 ` [gentoo-dev] Packages with same name Ulrich Mueller
2007-05-17 10:10 ` Raúl Porcel
2007-05-16 22:59 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages with same name was -> Conversion of Emacs virtual packages Ali Polatel
2007-05-16 23:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Kelly
2007-05-17 0:19 ` Georgi Georgiev
2007-05-17 7:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-17 14:59 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-05-17 15:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-17 16:48 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-05-17 16:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-17 17:07 ` Josh Sled
2007-05-17 17:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2007-05-17 17:57 ` Chris Gianelloni
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