From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jjm2bt$sc2$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120312173416.06817095@fuchsia.remarqs.net>
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. It's the inability for people to offer replacement packages in
overlays.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-12 23:56 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 [this message]
2012-03-13 0:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-13 3:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-13 16:04 ` »Q«
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