From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QKH2R-0004so-6T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:33:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F1861C01D; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.142]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6541C01D for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.71.28.203] (helo=november) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QKH19-0005J6-8j for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:32:27 +0000 Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:43:26 +0100 From: John To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Virtual Packages Message-ID: <20110511224326.58bd1cb7@november> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.71.28.203] X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6a810f831774be4bbc5a83f61e16a62c Have noticed that some packages require virtual packages to installed as well. For example when installing dev-db/mysql, virtual/mysql is installed as well. What are the purposes of these "virtual" packages?? Thanks -- John D Maunder john@articwolf.myzen.co.uk