From: »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:04:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313110446.67a726b2@fuchsia.remarqs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jjm2bt$sc2$1@dough.gmane.org
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/03/12 00:34, »Q« wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200
> > Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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.
I expect more virtuals will mean more bugs affecting users. I don't
know how hairy they will be, but here's one ugly example:
<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398295>. It's unresolved, but
less has been added back to @system so stage 3 tarballs aren't broken
for now. (I guess this could have happened with provides as well.)
> It's the inability for people to offer replacement
> packages in overlays.
Yeah, I see.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 17:06 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
2012-03-13 3:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-13 16:04 ` »Q« [this message]
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