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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] virtual evolution
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:40:46
Message-Id: 200405061140.35463.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] virtual evolution by Pieter Van den Abeele
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4 On Thursday 06 May 2004 03:24, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
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6 > To make emerge --update world work again, the user has to unmerge
7 > blackdown-jdk. If the user emerges blackdown-jdk again afterwards,
8 > emerge --update world still works.
9 > Shouldn't portage update the virtual provider every time an ebuild
10 > providing a virtual gets installed?
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12 I don't know. In any case the provider should be a default, not the only
13 option. That means that when the default provider is not available for
14 this version, it should find another one that is.
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16 Paul
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