On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:57:28 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> Can't we just treat them like other ebuilds except for the thing
> about dependencies? Perhaps more fine-grained attributes could be
> added for additional specificity.

Could do, yes, in which case the name should be something like
'zero-resolution-cost' rather than 'virtual'. But since giving more
information to the package manager is trivial, we might as well do
so.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh