Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtuals - required?

[Jason Stubbs]

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On Sunday 20 June 2004 00:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:51:49 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
> wrote:
> | What I'm proposing here is to drop virtuals altogether. Instead, I
> | propose using meta-packages similar to kde and gnome. To give a give a
> | cut down example:
> |
> | virtual/x11-1.ebuild:
> | RDEPEND="x86? ( || ( x11-base/xfree x11-base/xorg-x11 ) )
> |          sparc? ( || ( x11-base/xorg-x11 x11-base/xfree ) )"
>
> For this to work, you'd have to do at least two things:
>
> 1) Hack portage to display virtuals stuff differently. Otherwise we'd
> end up with reaaaaallyy really messy qpkg / equery / emerge output.

This is not so much of a problem,

> 2) Make RDEPEND work. Example::
>
> emerge fluxbox
> (watch xorg-x11 get pulled in)
> emerge unmerge xorg-x11
> (virtual/x11 is still installed)
> emerge kde
> (watch stuff explode since there're no x libs)

but this means that proper support is a fair way down the track - if possible 
at all. Even if portage prevented (by default) uninstalling packages that had 
others depending on it, an override would still be necessary or else a move 
such as the one from xfree to xorg-x11 would really be hell. ;)

Well, I'll shelve that idea for the present.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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