From: Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:58:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4158135.fXSR2xgE4k@thetick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171211013619.1fba2e7b@katipo2.lan>
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Am Sonntag, 10. Dezember 2017, 13:36:19 CET schrieb Kent Fredric:
> as a sort
> of bodge to compensate for the fact portage has no working "provides"
> feature
I'd just like to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, portage actually
switched *from* a "provides" model *to* the virtual system we use today.
(This was more than a decade ago, before I started using Gentoo. I remember
this because I vaguely recall seeing repoman and/or portage warnings about
deprecated use of PROVIDES or some such in overlay ebuilds.)
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Marc Joliet
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-07 5:44 [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem John Covici
2017-12-07 12:42 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-07 14:04 ` John Covici
2017-12-07 18:22 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-07 14:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-07 15:46 ` John Covici
2017-12-08 16:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-08 19:12 ` John Covici
2017-12-09 8:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-09 11:23 ` John Covici
2017-12-09 15:28 ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-09 16:18 ` John Covici
2017-12-09 23:20 ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-09 23:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-10 7:17 ` John Covici
2017-12-10 12:36 ` Kent Fredric
2017-12-10 12:54 ` John Covici
2017-12-10 13:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-10 15:16 ` John Covici
2017-12-10 14:52 ` Kent Fredric
2017-12-10 16:51 ` John Covici
2017-12-13 10:58 ` Marc Joliet [this message]
2017-12-09 16:30 ` Alan McKinnon
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