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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? | ||
| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:03:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20110423155724.040acfc0@googlemail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" |
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| 1 | On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:47:37 +0200 |
| 2 | Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > What I propose solves the problems that old-style virtuals introduce |
| 4 | > in dependency resolution. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Not really, because it means we'd have to keep the nasty old code around |
| 7 | forever. If we just do away with the things entirely instead then we |
| 8 | can pretend they never existed (like we did for ? : dependencies). |
| 9 | |
| 10 | > What other problems do they cause? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | DEPEND=">=virtual/blah-2" |
| 13 | |
| 14 | DEPEND="virtual/blah[foo]" |
| 15 | |
| 16 | DEPEND="!virtual/that-i-provide" |
| 17 | |
| 18 | PROVIDE="not-a/virtual" |
| 19 | |
| 20 | best_version virtual/blah |
| 21 | |
| 22 | The full VDB load required to figure out whether or not a virtual is |
| 23 | installed. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | -- |
| 26 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? | "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o> |