[gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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As I'm still working on Gentoo/FreeBSD project, and I'm trying to get KDE 
working there, I have a bit of a problem which I want to discuss with all the 
devs.

The problem is that: kde-base/kdesktop depends on eject (and probably is not 
the only one), but eject is a non-portable, linux-dependant program.
FreeBSD has its own version of eject, which I just added to fbsd's overlay as 
sys-apps/eject-bsd.
I'll also add to that overlay a kdesktop ebuild which depends || 
( sys-apps/eject sys-apps/eject-bsd) so to have the dependencies fullfilled.

This can't be done everytime, and hoping for, in future, having an universal 
eject (libcdio should allow that) I wanted to ask if is possible to add a 
virtual/eject provided by sys-apps/eject and sys-apps/eject-bsd so that they 
can be made dependencies as needed.

Comments?

Thanks,
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/


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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:12:04 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
<flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:
| The problem is that: kde-base/kdesktop depends on eject (and probably
| is not  the only one)

How many? If it's less than a half dozen packages, you don't get a
virtual.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Monday 23 May 2005 19:16, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> How many? If it's less than a half dozen packages, you don't get a
> virtual.
There are 8 packages directly depending on eject and one suggesting to install 
it (net-misc/krusader).

There's also the problem that using a || () dep will break while eject-bsd is 
in overlay.

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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/


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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 23 May 2005 01:27 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> There's also the problem that using a || () dep will break while eject-bsd
> is in overlay.

Not An Issue
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Monday 23 May 2005 18:12, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> This can't be done everytime, and hoping for, in future, having an
> universal eject (libcdio should allow that) I wanted to ask if is possible
> to add a virtual/eject provided by sys-apps/eject and sys-apps/eject-bsd so
> that they can be made dependencies as needed.
News about this? We really need a solution to this.

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/


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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 02:02 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2005 18:12, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > This can't be done everytime, and hoping for, in future, having an
> > universal eject (libcdio should allow that) I wanted to ask if is possible
> > to add a virtual/eject provided by sys-apps/eject and sys-apps/eject-bsd so
> > that they can be made dependencies as needed.

> News about this? We really need a solution to this.

I'm just curious, but why exactly is a virtual needed?

Why can't it be something like:

!blah? ( sys-apps/eject )
blah? (sys-apps/eject-bsd )

A virtual is usually reserved for when it affects a large number of
packages.  If it affects one or two, then simply using some fun *DEPEND
syntax usually covers the issue.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Friday 27 May 2005 15:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> I'm just curious, but why exactly is a virtual needed?
Well there are nine packages (and probably there can be others) which needs 
eject, and the eject commands are going to be quite a few if there isn't an 
"universal" eject as every os has its own way to eject a CD-Rom.
So we'll have eject for linux, eject-bsd for freebsd (and maybe openbsd, don't 
know), eject-osx (and maybe eject-darwin) and eventual eject-solaris if there 
will ever be a solaris port.
Every kernel has its own syscalls, and using conditional deps for every kernel 
on more than a couple of packages will surely be something annoying for 
maintainers.


-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/


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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:45 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Friday 27 May 2005 15:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > I'm just curious, but why exactly is a virtual needed?
> Well there are nine packages (and probably there can be others) which needs 
> eject, and the eject commands are going to be quite a few if there isn't an 
> "universal" eject as every os has its own way to eject a CD-Rom.
> So we'll have eject for linux, eject-bsd for freebsd (and maybe openbsd, don't 
> know), eject-osx (and maybe eject-darwin) and eventual eject-solaris if there 
> will ever be a solaris port.
> Every kernel has its own syscalls, and using conditional deps for every kernel 
> on more than a couple of packages will surely be something annoying for 
> maintainers.

OK... You sold me.

So create a virtual/eject... =]

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 27 May 2005 10:04 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> OK... You sold me.

you're too easy
-mike
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