On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:47:37 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: > What I propose solves the problems that old-style virtuals introduce > in dependency resolution.
Not really, because it means we'd have to keep the nasty old code around forever. If we just do away with the things entirely instead then we can pretend they never existed (like we did for ? : dependencies). > What other problems do they cause? DEPEND=">=virtual/blah-2" DEPEND="virtual/blah[foo]" DEPEND="!virtual/that-i-provide" PROVIDE="not-a/virtual" best_version virtual/blah The full VDB load required to figure out whether or not a virtual is installed. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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