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From: "Bruce Hill, Jr." <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:30:48 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1681029049.610710.1331580648044.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjli7m$35r$1@dough.gmane.org>




On March 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
> >   These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in
#gentoo
> > are worse.
> >
> > What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it?
>
> Paul's answers covers it, but I'll give an explanation that is the
> reverse of a fanboi answer.
>
> The reason we need virtuals is because of a shortcoming in portage: lack
> of "provides" functionality.  RPM packages can tell the package manager
> what they provide.  For example, RPMs for libav and ffmpeg can both use
> "ffmpeg" as their "provides" field.  Portage can't do that, so it needs
> a new "virtual/ffmpeg" package instead.
>
>


My only experience building software was making scripts to work on my own
computer(s), which didn't require checking deps for everybody and his
brother's possible setups; so frequently portage offends me with it's dep
checking and installing.

Thanks for the patience, guys. My mind has not morphed to The Gentoo Way
(R) yet and frequently bucks up against this type of pkg mgr.
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12 18:05 [gentoo-user] virtual/shadow Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-12 18:50 ` Paul Hartman
2012-03-12 19:21   ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-12 19:19 ` [gentoo-user] virtual/shadow Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-12 19:30   ` Bruce Hill, Jr. [this message]
2012-03-12 20:29   ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-12 22:34     ` »Q«
2012-03-12 23:54       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-13  0:23         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-13  3:46           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-13 16:04         ` »Q«

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