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On 13/03/12 00:34, »Q« wrote: |
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> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200 |
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> Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES |
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>> support in portage? |
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> IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that |
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> some devs started keeping up a steady drumbeat on irc and mailing |
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> lists. When the number of virtual packages gets close to a thousand, |
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> I'd guess that might happen. Then there would be years of discussion |
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> and GLEP proposals, and by EAPI 207 it should be done. |
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The problem isn't the amount of virtuals. This doesn't affect the users |
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much. It's the inability for people to offer replacement packages in |
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overlays. |
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