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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:22:25PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 15:38, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > -*app-arch/tar |
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> > put '-*app-arch/tar' into your packages |
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> I'm still thinking for the eselect-able tar command and virtual/tar, as long |
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> as they are syntax-compatible (bsdtar and gnutar are compatible). |
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then we would make it virtual/tar, we wouldnt remove the package all together |
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> > > -*sys-process/procps |
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> > err, this isnt linux specific ... it is ported to other systems (like |
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> > FreeBSD) |
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> FreeBSD provide its own ways for these commands, and it will collides with |
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> base system commands. Also, the FreeBSD versions uses libkvm to get data and |
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> are usually faster/safer. |
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then you can make a virtual too :P |
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> > > -*sys-apps/which |
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> > this isnt linux-specific |
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> GNU specific, FreeBSD and NetBSD does not require this, have their own |
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> versions. It's not masked, as the newer versions should install as gwhich, |
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> but it's also not a requirement. |
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it isnt a GNU package ... the package isnt part of gnu.org and it's used on a |
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ton of operating systems as is |
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it's in system because everyone expects it to be on your system and too many |
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scripts just use it out of hand to try and track it |
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> > > -*virtual/modutils |
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> > FreeBSD doesnt support kernel modules ? |
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> Not with the same ideas of Linux. There's no "extra" package for this, the |
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> commands are in the base system. Yeah we can probably set the PROVIDE and the |
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> virtual but... do we *really* need to add the dep on the virtual for every |
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> port? I'd think that just Linux has reasons of having this (as other system |
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> has no alternatives), so no reason to let the other systems resolve an extra |
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> virtual... |
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why dont we get a larger sampling of other systems first :p |
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-mike |
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