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 1S7Dq8-0008Iz-94 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:35:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB090E0C6B; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:35:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE1BE0D0C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A74E1B4076 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:34:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.55 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.639, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Oiy3GHpAKxn3 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 712BF1B4075 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7DoZ-0003uM-SZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:03 +0100 Received: from wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net ([174.76.82.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:03 +0100 Received: from boxcars by wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:34:16 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20120312173416.06817095@fuchsia.remarqs.net> References: <1669924605.604523.1331575521916.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <20120312222910.063104c6@khamul.example.com> 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-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 388ef7eb-fa60-4b70-8f6a-396fd753574a X-Archives-Hash: 78850807c4f72fd51a644a168e767e92 On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES > support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping up a steady drumbeat on irc and mailing lists. When the number of virtual packages gets close to a thousand, I'd guess that might happen. Then there would be years of discussion and GLEP proposals, and by EAPI 207 it should be done. ;)