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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving subslot-only virtuals to a separate category to reduce confusion
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:48:06
Message-Id: 1a1743e30bcc7f80f090bfb1c8bf3bf4d45e915d.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving subslot-only virtuals to a separate category to reduce confusion by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 2021-01-30 at 18:35 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
2 >
3 > To make this SOVERSION-virtual concept more visible and easily
4 > distinguishable from regular virtuals, I'd like to propose that we
5 > start
6 > moving them into a dedicated category. For example, 'lib-sover'
7 > comes
8 > to my mind. While this ofc doesn't guarantee that people will do
9 > things
10 > right, it will at least make it clear that these packages are
11 > somewhat
12 > different from regular virtuals and hopefully avoid making wrong
13 > assumptions.
14 >
15 >
16
17 I would go all the way and move (say) the libjpeg provider to media-
18 libs/libjpeg.

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