On Monday 07 November 2005 20:38, Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
> So why is a virtual needed?  Don't the two packages co-exist?
They do, but at the moment just one can provide /bin/tar for a specific 
system.

The idea is to be able to select one of the two, like loggers, crons, and 
similar. And just let virtual/tar be included in the base's packages, 
defaulting base virtual/tar to app-arch/tar, and overwriting it on freebsd 
profiles to app-arch/bsdtar.

And when I want to remove app-arch/tar from linux... I can just select my own 
virtual provider on /etc/portage/profile, and let deps be clear by 
themselves.

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