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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.





      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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