On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:01:48 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since there were some questions about ambiguity in the meaning of > the proposed PROPERTIES=virtual [1] value, we need to clarify it. > Just as the "live" property [2] is intended to have a pure and > simple meaning, so is the "virtual" property. The "virtual" property > will serve only as a hint, to indicate that dependency calculations > should consider the package to have zero installation cost (see bug > 141118 [3] for an example of why this knowledge is useful). The > "virtual" property should not imply anything more than this, and > therefore the package manager should assume that the package is to > be treated exactly the same as other ebuilds in every other way. The > package should be installed and uninstalled just like any other > ebuild, including execution of all of the normal ebuild phase > functions that would be executed for any other ebuild that does not > exhibit the "virtual" property.
So are all zero-install-cost metapackages virtuals now? What about, for instance, kde-base/kde? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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