From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3U3NLhb023223 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:23:21 GMT Received: from p061204002031.ppp.prin.ne.jp ([61.204.2.31] helo=linux.box) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DRiZe-0002lz-2u for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:23:23 +0000 Received: by linux.box (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DDF9545F4A; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:23:16 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:23:13 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504281840.23788.lanius@gentoo.org> <200504300151.44601.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <42729820.2010504@flaska.net> In-Reply-To: <42729820.2010504@flaska.net> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4670412.6bkVkPp8Hq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200504301223.16244.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 16663826-399f-4a95-bd61-4b8c75f991b0 X-Archives-Hash: 3c613c030438189abdcfa2dbc05bcc11 --nextPart4670412.6bkVkPp8Hq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 30 April 2005 05:25, Jan Kundr=C3=A1t wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/docs/virtuals-glep.txt > > Please forgive me if this ml is a bad place for suggestions. > > Ad "overrides" - what about "per-virtual" preferencies: > What happens if packages A and B provide functionality X, packages B & C > provide Y *and* you prefer B for X and C for Y? (This situation can be > actually solved by order "C > B > A", but that wouldn't be possible if C > provided X, too.) Manually emerge one or the other. If you're wanting to keep such a case in= =20 sync across a network, add them to system. These "preferences" are only for= =20 the purposes of dependency calculation. The ebuilds themselves are=20 essentially free to build against whatever they want. Regards, Jason --nextPart4670412.6bkVkPp8Hq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCcvokxvWNPsk/ZP4RApXvAJ4/BQ4GXTzcgSDIIADpr2RloFZiBwCdHLuy 4zzlTy7PcaqH1txZMtoK5Pw= =L0qb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4670412.6bkVkPp8Hq-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list