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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] virtual evolution
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:40:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405061140.35463.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29AF6280-9EFC-11D8-90CF-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org>

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On Thursday 06 May 2004 03:24, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:

> To make emerge --update world work again, the user has to unmerge
> blackdown-jdk. If the user emerges blackdown-jdk again afterwards,
> emerge --update world still works.
> Shouldn't portage update the virtual provider every time an ebuild
> providing a virtual gets installed?

I don't know. In any case the provider should be a default, not the only 
option. That means that when the default provider is not available for 
this version, it should find another one that is.

Paul

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-06  1:24 [gentoo-portage-dev] virtual evolution Pieter Van den Abeele
2004-05-06  9:40 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]

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