From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3445 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jul 2003 02:28:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12060 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 02:28:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:28:46 -0400 From: Aron Griffis To: gentoo-core@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030710022845.GA28875@time> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-core@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F0C4A20.9030704@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <3F0C4A20.9030704@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Creation of 'virtual/vi' to satisfy builds X-Archives-Salt: bf495b5f-7dc8-44bc-bcdb-696f654dd6e4 X-Archives-Hash: 7ee77a8cc69b2a634e1c8ebf862a4708 Brad Laue wrote: [Wed Jul 09 2003, 01:00:16PM EDT] > I'm running into builds requiring the 'ex' binary, which is provided > by several vi clones. >=20 > I'd like to suggest the creation of 'virtual/vi' to satisfy this=20 > problem. Are there any comments/objections? In principle, I don't have a problem with this, but I have a couple questions: 1. Does having a virtual require that only one of the options is installed at a time? I recall this being the case with ssmtp/postfix/etc, but maybe that's specific to those ebuilds. I wouldn't want Gentoo to be restricted to a single vi-clone on a system. 2. What are the builds that require ex? That's a pretty strange requirement, to be honest. Most builds I've seen require ed for non-interactive editing, not ex. 3. What about the case where you install vim, then install nvi, then uninstall nvi? In that case /usr/bin/ex will disappear from the system (because the files conflict between packages), but the virtual will still be "satisfied". 4. What are the ebuilds that provide ex? At first glance, I only see nvi and vim. Aron -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list