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Michał Górny wrote: |
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> There is a number of virtuals in Gentoo which switching active |
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> implementation via eselect. However, most of the packages being |
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> 'alternative providers' don't seem to care about eselect at all. Is |
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> that the correct thing to do, or maybe should every package ensure |
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> that after its removal another implementation is eselected |
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> (or a cleanup is done)? |
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we have been using for quite a while now the alternatives-2 eclass in |
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the science overlay for many virtual packages. the nice thing about it |
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apart from implementing the issues you raised is we do not have to |
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write a new eselect package for the virtual. |
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sebastien |