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On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 05:33:06PM +0200, Petteri RRRty wrote: |
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> > There's still that stupid !virtual/blah thing to deal with. Old style |
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> > virtual providers are allowed to block their own virtual to mean "there |
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> > must not be any other provider of this installed" (although it's not |
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> > clear what that means if anything other than a simple !virtual/pkg is |
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> > used). Anything doing that would now have to explicitly list its own |
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> > blocks. Arguably, this is a good thing, since you'd have to say exactly |
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> > what you do and don't work with. |
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> The cases where this is needed could declare the full list of providers |
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> in an eclass. Are there any problems with this approach besides the |
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> increased maintenance burden? |
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Overlay interaction, and the need to bundle a g37 metapkg, allowing it |
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to get out of date. Adding an "exacly one of" dep spec would be useful |
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for maintainers also I suspect, and easier on the manager in terms of |
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processing- it's not required, but advisable in my opinion. |
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I'm not a fan of old style virtuals, but it also has some benefits |
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over metapkgs- ease of self blocking is one example, ease of extension |
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also. There is an additional benefit- it leaves blocking to the |
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provider. An example would be a provider that unlike all of the |
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others, can't coexist with them- hasn't been rewritten to eselect or |
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something equivalent. |
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It might be worth seeing if there is a new form of the decentralized |
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virtuals we could add w/out the baggage inherited in old style, rather |
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than just chucking it out in full. Just a thought. |
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Meanwhile, current old style virtuals still specified in the profiles |
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follow- |
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virtual/alsa |
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virtual/antivirus |
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virtual/aspell-dict |
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virtual/baselayout |
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virtual/blackbox |
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virtual/bootloader |
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virtual/cron |
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virtual/dev-manager |
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virtual/dhcpc |
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virtual/dhcpcd |
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virtual/fam |
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virtual/gzip |
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virtual/imap-c-client |
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virtual/imapUW |
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virtual/imapd |
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virtual/inetd |
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virtual/j2ee |
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virtual/jabber-server |
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virtual/krb5 |
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virtual/libc |
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virtual/libiconv |
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virtual/libpcap |
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virtual/linux-sources |
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virtual/logger |
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virtual/lpr |
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virtual/m3 |
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virtual/mailx |
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virtual/man |
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virtual/mda |
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virtual/modutils |
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virtual/mta |
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virtual/ooo |
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virtual/opengl |
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virtual/os-headers |
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virtual/pam |
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virtual/pbs |
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virtual/php |
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virtual/portage |
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virtual/python |
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virtual/quicktime |
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virtual/ruby |
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virtual/skkserv |
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virtual/squeak-image |
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virtual/ssh |
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virtual/tftp |
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virtual/utempter |
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virtual/w3m |
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virtual/wine |
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Of those, libiconv and opengl have a g37 metapkg. |
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~harring |
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