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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:12:29
Message-Id: 20080825201217.194fecad@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition) by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:06:35 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > So are all zero-install-cost metapackages virtuals now? What about,
5 > > for instance, kde-base/kde?
6 >
7 > Looking at the dependencies of kde-base/kde, it seems like it would
8 > be eligible to exhibit the "virtual" property. Perhaps it wouldn't
9 > be very useful in this particular case, but it doesn't seem like it
10 > would hurt anything either. So, I think it's probably fine to keep
11 > the definition as it is and allow things like kde-base/kde to
12 > exhibit the "virtual" property.
13
14 Then change the name. Call it "zero-install-cost".
15
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17 Ciaran McCreesh

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