From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FNti0-0007zx-BB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:32:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2RFVkIm031604; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:31:46 GMT Received: from efil.de (efil.de [81.3.25.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2RFTSVE030017 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:29:28 GMT Received: by efil.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D26DCE299BE; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:29:13 +0200 From: Ingo Bormuth To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ocaml - to be or not to be Message-ID: <20060327152913.GA32530@kruemel> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G" Content-Disposition: inline X-Attribution: Ingo Bormuth X-Url: http://ibormuth.efil.de/contact User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 28d0f00d-79ba-409a-bfa4-38af26c3cd8d X-Archives-Hash: 22aa2f87aba5208c581d07d998cefbd3 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi dev-list, what is the rule concerning when to introduce new virtuals? I created an ebuild for metaocaml which is a real drop in replacement for= =20 the ocaml programming language allowing for metaprogramming and dynamic=20 linking. Metaocaml in fact is a patched version of ocaml. For licence reasons the patch is not available so I cannot optionally=20 apply it in the ocaml ebuild. Would you in such a case create a new virtual or just=20 PROVIDE "dev-lang/ocaml" in the metaocaml ebuild ? More information: Bug #111407 Thanks Ingo --=20 Ingo Bormuth, voicebox & telefax: +49-12125-10226517 '(~o-o~)' public key 86326EC9, http://ibormuth.efil.de/contact --ooO--(.)--Ooo-- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKATJNzWqdIYybskRAqicAJ9WaI2FMxMw7V9lyr+8yzX9Qwy10ACdFyLc NeRObM8f0B0WGkWD9qI4Luk= =mRl3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list