From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQc6M-0007bt-3D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:02:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22384E0608; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:02:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6ECEE0608 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so1092447nfi.26 for ; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=yG/nTJTjpU9Kp+9jM1hPa2efDAsA52uSOKMQNk2iT0k=; b=UlOpUJGx046eUQ6QsZ7L0pjniyOMAJOfCcH8vjVT0cNKMh8RvdiU3ONPQ2K4IIRViD QH06jdDuMg6kRyS+T/CS4JN6F0WiG07f+6Ko+6eoELE5v8ERXkR9UpdkTwQ1grLx1Ilh 6sDQ/noFEsgo+OAYzp6n/Iq9FOtRVzlahmVx4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=iwe8IMA/ie1ahNxJNb4+JStE+UjSK6dgqgy4NXLzGQx8z6yRXG0c6Jxe6VYi1FrNvi SBNMmwLcATadfdLgGjOfB34a6AAw+ZjWYQGAr+nZkBhf3IEbugwt2pOoJh0hz6RHrvpE d/e5Yo9yYn5d0Ertn2T2thZpZsoqgmyZPgItQ= Received: by 10.210.22.16 with SMTP id 16mr2017385ebv.196.1218002543181; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowcone ( [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8sm1620105gvb.1.2008.08.05.23.02.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:02:17 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=virtual value to identify meta-packages? Message-ID: <20080806070217.0de7646a@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <48993D48.8010904@gentoo.org> References: <4899335F.1000803@gentoo.org> <20080806063026.47f89505@snowcone> <48993D48.8010904@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/JiJsTNLRF7KCp8nLD49Uee3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f8ea7307-102d-44ac-8096-5d1ffb9040df X-Archives-Hash: 78900767a25b808bb2d07206038b1736 --Sig_/JiJsTNLRF7KCp8nLD49Uee3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:57:28 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > Can't we just treat them like other ebuilds except for the thing > about dependencies? Perhaps more fine-grained attributes could be > added for additional specificity. Could do, yes, in which case the name should be something like 'zero-resolution-cost' rather than 'virtual'. But since giving more information to the package manager is trivial, we might as well do so. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/JiJsTNLRF7KCp8nLD49Uee3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiZPmsACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHuLgCg51nPtG4w7/aO2/DQPN86pAzR 1HoAoNUQNTr/e3lp1Vj2v7nPunjElAMN =63W8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/JiJsTNLRF7KCp8nLD49Uee3--