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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:45 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> On Friday 27 May 2005 15:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > I'm just curious, but why exactly is a virtual needed? |
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> Well there are nine packages (and probably there can be others) which needs |
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> eject, and the eject commands are going to be quite a few if there isn't an |
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> "universal" eject as every os has its own way to eject a CD-Rom. |
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> So we'll have eject for linux, eject-bsd for freebsd (and maybe openbsd, don't |
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> know), eject-osx (and maybe eject-darwin) and eventual eject-solaris if there |
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> will ever be a solaris port. |
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> Every kernel has its own syscalls, and using conditional deps for every kernel |
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> on more than a couple of packages will surely be something annoying for |
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> maintainers. |
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OK... You sold me. |
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So create a virtual/eject... =] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |