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On Monday 18 April 2005 16:47, Philipp Hasse wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> is it true that entries starting with virtual won't work in |
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> /etc/portage/package.use? |
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> For example if I want to disable the doc use flag on the selected java |
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> distribution I would write: "virtual/jre -doc". |
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> What about adding this feature to portage? |
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Short answer? No. |
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Long answer? Here: |
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You're opening a can of worms there... What to do when virtual/jre and |
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dev-java/blackdown-jre are both specified but in conflict? What about if |
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dev-java/blackdown-jre is specified directly on the command line? |
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There would also be a big performance loss. For every package that is looked |
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at, portage would have to check if it provides any virtuals. After that every |
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one of the virtuals would have to be checked against package.use. It would |
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then have to check for and resolve any conflicts. |
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But of course, if package.use were to support this then package.mask, |
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package.unmask and package.keywords would have to support it as well. All in |
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all, a big loss for a small gain. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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