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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ffmpeg and media-video/libav
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:27:15
Message-Id: 4D91899B.60509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ffmpeg and media-video/libav by Alexis Ballier
1 On 03/28/2011 07:25 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 > I hope my fears are unjustified but I'm not sure how the PMs would behave in
3 > the following cases:
4 >
5 > a deps on b and virtual/ffmpeg
6 > b deps on media-video/ffmpeg
7 >
8 > what happens when I want to install package 'a' on a fresh system ? the pm
9 > tries to pull the virtual and thus libav and sees a blocker with the non
10 > virtual one?
11 >
12 > same questions with:
13 > a deps on media-video/ffmpeg
14 > b deps on virtual/ffmpeg
15 >
16 > type 'emerge a b'
17
18 That's handled by delayed evaluation since portage-2.1.7:
19
20 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264434
21
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac