Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft

[Jason Stubbs]

On Saturday 30 April 2005 05:25, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/docs/virtuals-glep.txt
>
> Please forgive me if this ml is a bad place for suggestions.
>
> Ad "overrides" - what about "per-virtual" preferencies:
> What happens if packages A and B provide functionality X, packages B & C
> provide Y *and* you prefer B for X and C for Y? (This situation can be
> actually solved by order "C > B > A", but that wouldn't be possible if C
> provided X, too.)

Manually emerge one or the other. If you're wanting to keep such a case in 
sync across a network, add them to system. These "preferences" are only for 
the purposes of dependency calculation. The ebuilds themselves are 
essentially free to build against whatever they want.

Regards,
Jason