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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 #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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