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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> If it's only used to indicate that the package doesn't install any |
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> files I'd suggest to use 'empty' or 'nocontents' instead. 'virtual' |
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> somehow implies that it's only applicable to packages in the 'virtual' |
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> category, which isn't the case with the given definition (as you said). |
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I like "virtual", since it really gets at the spirit of what the ebuild does. |
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"empty" sounds like it does nothing at all, and "nocontents" sounds that way to, |
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to me. |
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An analogy to "virtual" is a virtual method in OO programming - it sits at a |
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high level, does nothing in itself, but causes underlying methods to perform the |
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work. |
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-Joe |
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