From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7F6j-00025t-UZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:56:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BC18E0BE0; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE403E0B38 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F331BC026 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:54:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.01 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id caxXM2ek2KOD for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B4041BC02C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7F4g-0003jJ-2S for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:54:46 +0100 Received: from athedsl-352089.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.230.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:54:46 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-352089.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:54:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <1669924605.604523.1331575521916.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <20120312222910.063104c6@khamul.example.com> <20120312173416.06817095@fuchsia.remarqs.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-352089.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120302 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120312173416.06817095@fuchsia.remarqs.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2ef9aa0a-94d6-4d9a-b9bd-33aed3338a94 X-Archives-Hash: 40e77c5165cb15191aae4c5c3bc4decc On 13/03/12 00:34, =BBQ=AB wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200 > Alan McKinnon 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=20 much. It's the inability for people to offer replacement packages in=20 overlays.