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On March 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: |
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> > These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in |
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#gentoo |
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> > are worse. |
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> > What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? |
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> Paul's answers covers it, but I'll give an explanation that is the |
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> reverse of a fanboi answer. |
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> The reason we need virtuals is because of a shortcoming in portage: lack |
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> of "provides" functionality. RPM packages can tell the package manager |
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> what they provide. For example, RPMs for libav and ffmpeg can both use |
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> "ffmpeg" as their "provides" field. Portage can't do that, so it needs |
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> a new "virtual/ffmpeg" package instead. |
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My only experience building software was making scripts to work on my own |
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computer(s), which didn't require checking deps for everybody and his |
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brother's possible setups; so frequently portage offends me with it's dep |
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checking and installing. |
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Thanks for the patience, guys. My mind has not morphed to The Gentoo Way |
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(R) yet and frequently bucks up against this type of pkg mgr. |
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