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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtuals revisited (Round 3)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:49:17
Message-Id: 200504081249.22122.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Virtuals revisited (Round 3) by Jason Stubbs
1 On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:20, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > if package.prefer contained "dev-java/kaffe" then:
3 >
4 >
5 >         
6 >         || (
7 >             dev-java/blackdown-jdk
8 >             dev-java/sun-jdk
9 >             dev-java/kaffe
10 >            )
11 >
12 > would be processed as:
13 >
14 >
15 >         
16 >         || (
17 >             dev-java/kaffe
18 >             dev-java/blackdown-jdk
19 >             dev-java/sun-jdk
20 >            )
21
22 I think that even without this glep portage might be patched to sort or lists.
23 Currently the first get picked. We might want to change that to preferring
24 packages that do allready have an installed version above ones that don't.
25
26 Paul
27
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29 Paul de Vrieze
30 Gentoo Developer
31 Mail: pauldv@g.o
32 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtuals revisited (Round 3) Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>