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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:23:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313002317.623e4e26@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjm2bt$sc2$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras 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.  
> 
> The problem isn't the amount of virtuals.  This doesn't affect the
> users much.  It's the inability for people to offer replacement
> packages in overlays.

They could include a modified virtual in the overlay, but your point is
valid; including the information in the ebuilds is more flexible.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  0:24 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
2012-03-12 22:34     ` »Q«
2012-03-12 23:54       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-13  0:23         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-03-13  3:46           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-13 16:04         ` »Q«

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