* Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem
@ 2017-12-13 10:58 99% ` Marc Joliet
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From: Marc Joliet @ 2017-12-13 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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