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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312222910.063104c6@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjli7m$35r$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:19:12 +0200
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.
> 
> 

Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES
support in portage?



-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 20:31 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.
2012-03-12 20:29   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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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