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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone appreciate this VERY dumb idea....
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:50:59
Message-Id: 20030723074833.GD1063@Dimosys.mech.kuleuven.ac.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone appreciate this VERY dumb idea.... by donnie berkholz
1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:07:32AM -0500, donnie berkholz wrote:
2 > The idea of "virtual packages" like instantdesktop and instantserver has been
3 > tossed around for a while but I haven't seen anything come of it yet. I think
4 > it's been waiting for some needed portage features.
5
6 I would go for the virtual packages (well, kinda like the kde-package, which
7 just requires several other packages as dependencies).
8
9 OTOH, if you emerge kde, you already have an instant desktop :)
10
11 Wkr,
12 Sven Vermeulen
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