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We want to implement virtuals for Java at some point and for that we |
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need to know the package that provides the virtual because some virtuals |
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can be provided by the JDK or normal packages and this affects the JDK |
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selection at build time. One option is to call into Portage to find this |
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out, but of course Paludis and Pkgcore people most likely don't like |
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this approach. One thing that comes to mind is to allow for virtuals to |
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install files so we can install the provider information in a format |
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easy for us. We need the information in format ${PN}-${SLOT} because |
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that's the way we install in /usr/share. So do you think it's ok for |
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virtuals to install files (we can of course call the category |
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java-virtual/ too), should we call Portage code, or do you have an |
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another idea? |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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Gentoo/Java project lead |
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