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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:45:52
Message-Id: 20080905154427.a3c9e04b.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition) by Zac Medico
1 On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:01:48 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Do the name and definition of this PROPERTIES=virtual value seem
5 > good? Would anybody like to discuss any changes to the name,
6 > definition, or both?
7
8 If it's only used to indicate that the package doesn't install any
9 files I'd suggest to use 'empty' or 'nocontents' instead. 'virtual'
10 somehow implies that it's only applicable to packages in the 'virtual'
11 category, which isn't the case with the given definition (as you said).
12
13 Marius

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