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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:34:47
Message-Id: CADqQcK7G6dgBeVfs0-CRzWm494SneJTrtQ6xm7bGScGiem6h1w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/ by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > Considering the number of different virtuals in this category, maybe it
3 > would be a good idea to split it a little? What I'm proposing is maybe
4 > creating some kind of '*-virtual' categories.
5 >
6 > For example, half of the current virtuals are prefixed with 'perl-'.
7 > Maybe they could be transformed into 'perl-virtual/*'?
8 >
9
10 $ ls -1 /usr/portage/virtual/ | wc -l
11 155
12 $ ls -1 /usr/portage/dev-libs/ | wc -l
13 370
14 $ ls -1 /usr/portage/net-libs/ | wc -l
15 135
16 $ ls -1 /usr/portage/dev-util/ | wc -l
17 278
18 $ ls -1 /usr/portage/dev-perl/ | wc -l
19 1029
20
21 I don't see a pressing need to split virtual/ yet :)
22
23
24 --
25 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
26
27 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/ Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>