From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:57:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110423155724.040acfc0@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB2E689.3010609@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:47:37 +0200
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> What I propose solves the problems that old-style virtuals introduce
> in dependency resolution.
Not really, because it means we'd have to keep the nasty old code around
forever. If we just do away with the things entirely instead then we
can pretend they never existed (like we did for ? : dependencies).
> What other problems do they cause?
DEPEND=">=virtual/blah-2"
DEPEND="virtual/blah[foo]"
DEPEND="!virtual/that-i-provide"
PROVIDE="not-a/virtual"
best_version virtual/blah
The full VDB load required to figure out whether or not a virtual is
installed.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-23 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 6:05 [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Eray Aslan
2011-04-23 10:28 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:15 ` Zac Medico
2011-04-23 13:25 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 13:28 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 13:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 14:47 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 14:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2011-04-23 15:50 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-23 16:02 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2011-04-23 12:01 ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-04-23 12:07 ` Thomas Sachau
2011-04-23 12:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 13:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-23 15:24 ` Zac Medico
2011-04-24 4:57 ` Eray Aslan
2011-04-24 5:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-24 6:42 ` Eray Aslan
2011-04-24 20:35 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-23 11:03 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-23 13:07 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-04-23 11:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 11:59 ` Thomas Sachau
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