On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:12:53AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Harald van Dijk wrote: > > How does it help? New-style virtuals have several disadvantages, and the > > usual advantages of new-style virtuals don't apply here. If it actually > > provides real benefits, then no objections from me, but how is this > > easier to maintain than a "virtual/eject sys-block/unieject" entry in > > the default-bsd profile? > > Could you expand on the disadvantages?
New-style virtuals aren't automatically provided when the relevant packages get installed, can't block themselves when only one may be installed at a time, can't be provided from an ebuild in an overlay without adding a virtual ebuild too, which must be kept in sync with the one in gentoo-x86, and more simply are ugly in emerge --pretend output. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
