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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:15:11 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>> Does this seem like a desirable way to represent the "virtual"
>> attribute? Any suggestions?
> 
> Again, I'm not so sure that this doesn't represent multiple separable
> concepts. It seems to imply:
> 
> * that the install cost is effectively zero
> * that the resolution cost is effectively zero
> * that the package does not install any files
> * that the package does not use any of the (normal?) ebuild phases, and
> so does not require exclusive pkg_* execution or pkg_* system state
> preservation.
> 

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.

Zac
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