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On Friday 08 April 2005 00:05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:53:38 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | > An example of exactly how portage would 'solve' this would be |
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> | > helpful. Would it ask for an unmerge of gvim-6.3 or would it include |
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> | > an upgrade of gvim-6.3 as part of the "emerge ~vim-7"? |
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> | Yep something like that. The specifics of what to do in various cases |
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> | such as that one have not been worked out but are irrelevant to the |
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> | glep anyway. The glep only need require that it is handled. |
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> Better to say *how* it would be handled IMO. |
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Yes, it is. But not in this GLEP. |
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> | > 3) We don't specify every virtual in every profile thanks to |
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> | > cascades. |
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> | And...? I guess you are referring to "profiles must provide a default |
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> | ..." but that _is_ a correct statement. If somebody wants to create a |
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> | new profile that doesn't derive from base, they must specify defaults |
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> | for all the virtuals. |
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> Serves them right for not deriving from base :) |
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In other words, irrelevant. |
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> | > 4) Backwards compatibility -- all virtuals ebuilds should include |
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> | > DEPEND=">=portage-2.whatever" as well as the "|| ( foo bar )" stuff. |
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> | Why? The virtuals would be no different to regular packages. |
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> Oh, actually, it's worse than I thought. You can't use virtual/ as the |
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> prefix *at all*. |
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> ciaranm@snowdrop overlay 0 0.10 $ cat virtual/breakme/breame-1.ebuild |
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> ciaranm@snowdrop overlay 0 0.09 $ cat app-misc/breakme/breakme-1.ebuild |
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> DEPEND="virtual/breakme" |
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> KEYWORDS="x86" |
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> ciaranm@snowdrop overlay 1 0.05 $ FEATURES=-candy emerge |
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> app-misc/breakme -pv |
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> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies - |
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> !!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. |
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> !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/breakme-1) |
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> AFAIK, virtual can't be removed from categories either... |
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Can fix this for portage-2.0.51.20. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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