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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:41:49
Message-Id: 17995.31057.56346.880740@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conversion of Emacs virtual packages by Chris Gianelloni
1 >>>>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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3 > You end up with this:
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5 > /usr/portage/packages/All/emacs-21.4-r12
6 > /usr/portage/packages/All/emacs-21
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8 > When you go to merge your virtual, it will always merge the package,
9 > even if you're *trying* to merge an emacs alternative.
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11 This is no longer an issue in (stable) portage-2.1.2.2. I just talked
12 to zmedico and he confirmed that 2.1.2 avoids collisions.
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14 So, no need to rename virtual/emacs.
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16 Ulrich
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