Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:58:32 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>> You can insist on this SRC_URI + DEFINED_PHASES approach, but I
>> doubt that package manager developers will want to rely on these
>> kinds of fragile assumptions. You thought that relying on the
>> "virtual" category name was ridiculous, but this SRC_URI +
>> DEFINED_PHASES approach seems must less practical to me.

> The difference is, SRC_URI + DEFINED_PHASES is guaranteed to work.

Adding explicit information to PROPERTIES still looks much cleaner
to me.

And as previously noted, not every virtual (or meta package) has empty
DEFINED_PHASES.

Ulrich