From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay7.poste.it (relay7.poste.it [62.241.4.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4RDoMob024678 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 13:50:22 GMT Received: from flameeyes.is-a-geek.org (151.44.26.107) by relay7.poste.it (7.2.052.3) (authenticated as emanuela.zanon@poste.it) id 4210C3E30011F84B for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 15:50:29 +0200 From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?q?Petten=C3=B2?=" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/eject ? Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:45:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505231812.10030@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200505270202.27276@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1117201469.14290.232.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1117201469.14290.232.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.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="nextPart3416029.77zQ9Z9ylk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505271546.01534@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 80e2c9ca-7018-44f5-859a-993e76a0e1de X-Archives-Hash: 7d391038fc085f5e94815f52ada82f93 --nextPart3416029.77zQ9Z9ylk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 eject, and the eject commands are going to be quite a few if there isn't an= =20 "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, do= n't=20 know), eject-osx (and maybe eject-darwin) and eventual eject-solaris if the= re=20 will ever be a solaris port. Every kernel has its own syscalls, and using conditional deps for every ker= nel=20 on more than a couple of packages will surely be something annoying for=20 maintainers. =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ --nextPart3416029.77zQ9Z9ylk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBClySZe2h1+2mHVWMRAkDoAJ97arnxdjrCJIIHYtHVrRLULdT7rgCeOGAx 0MQ4R0ptDWc3G4UAdy4CbVU= =LRXQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3416029.77zQ9Z9ylk-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list