Re: [gentoo-dev] new-style virtual/editor

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 05 October 2007, Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-10 at 20:27 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > How many packages depend on virtual/editor? Should it be a virtual at
> > > all?
> >
> > The system set depends on it, and last I knew didn't allow for any-of
> > deps.
>
> Does it really depend on it ? Or is it just a convenient dep so its
> installed as part of the stage1 ? Why not just put nano in the system
> (which is was gets pulled into the stages anyway).

if it's part of the "system" target, then it's a pita for people to switch 
editors ... `emerge vim && emerge -C nano` wont work anymore

if it's part of the "build" target (meaning it goes into stage1 but isnt part 
of "system"), then it'll get cleaned by default when doing something simple 
like `emerge depclean`

it doesnt matter to me whether ebuilds do PROVIDE or a new style virtual, 
whatever floats your boat i guess
-mike

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