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Michal Kurgan wrote: |
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> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:01:48 -0700 |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Hi everyone, |
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>> Since there were some questions about ambiguity in the meaning of |
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>> the proposed PROPERTIES=virtual [1] value, we need to clarify it. |
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>> [ ... ] |
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>> Ebuilds that exhibit the "virtual" property commonly serve as a |
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>> layer of indirection in dependencies. All of the ebuilds in the |
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>> existing "virtual" category [4] should be eligible to define |
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>> PROPERTIES=virtual. If the ebuilds in the virtual category were the |
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>> only ones that exhibited this "virtual" property, then the |
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>> information that PROPERTIES=virtual represents could simply be |
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>> inferred from membership of that category. However, existence of |
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>> meta-packages in the "java-virtuals" category [5], among others, |
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>> makes it useful to introduce the "virtual" property as a means to |
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>> identify these ebuilds. Note that some packages, such as x11-libs/qt |
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>> [6], exhibit this property for some versions and not others. So, in |
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>> some cases it may be useful to be able to specify the "virtual" |
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>> property separately for different ebuild versions. |
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> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to just move the "offending" ebuilds to |
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> virtual category? e.g. virtual/qt, etc. |
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A package move doesn't seem very practical given that the "virtual" |
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property varies from one version to the next. I suppose it could be |
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done as a split where older versions continue to exist as |
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x11-libs/qt and newer versions exist as virtual/qt. If we take that |
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approach then you'll have to convince the java team to combine the |
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whole java-virtuals category [1] into the virtual category. The same |
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goes for any other meta-packages such as kde-meta-* or whatnot. |
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[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/category/java-virtuals |
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>> - -- |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Zac |
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- -- |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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