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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:55:46
Message-Id: 4DB2E689.3010609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
2 > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:28:04 +0200
3 > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Because there is a reason for not doing so, or because you think that
6 >> multi-repository support is a superior solution which will come
7 >> sooner?
8 >>
9 > Because what you propose solves nothing, and prevents the entire point
10 > of the exercise, which is to do away entirely with old style virtuals
11 > and all the problems they introduce.
12 >
13
14 What I propose solves the problems that old-style virtuals introduce in
15 dependency resolution. What other problems do they cause?
16
17
18 Regards,
19 Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>