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Virtual/* means that it isn't an exact package and you simply need |
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something that gives you that service (and is who's ebuild is setup to |
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claim to provide that service). |
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i.e. there are a variety of system loggers like metalog, syslogd, |
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syslogd-ng and they all provide virtual/logger, so that any one of them |
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will suffice for some thing that depends on virtual/logger. Where-as if |
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you depended on syslogd, the ebuild would fail for someone using |
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metalog. |
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I believe this is covered more here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html |
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Sean |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Bill Kenworthy [mailto:billk@×××××××××.au] |
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 16:28 |
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To: gentoo-dev List |
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] virtual problem |
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I have not been able to do an "emerge --update world" for a couple of |
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weeks now due to various vritual/?????????? packages. e.g., xmms |
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depended on virtual/opengl. I unermerged it and ended up emergeing a |
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number of other packages in the process of getting it back. Now it is |
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done one of those packages, qt, complains of missing virtual/glu when I |
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try and emerge world. |
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Can someone explain this whole virtual thing and how to fix, or give a |
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reference in the docs? |
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BillK |
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* I have noted a couple of other emails along these lines, but havent |
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seen any fixes yet. |
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