Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature Request/RFC : "Elective" virtuals

2012-06-29 Thread Kent Fredric
> > Perhaps it would be best to tell users that if they'd like to see the > possible choices they can run ie 'qdepends -r virtual/cron' > Quite, perhaps it could be a seperate mechanism, it would just seem that for virtuals that just provide a list of alternatives, having a seperate package that g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature Request/RFC : "Elective" virtuals

2012-06-29 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 28/06/12 09:41 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > I was doing a fresh Gentoo install today, following the manual, and > it appeared to me that the manual suggests to install a "logger" > and a "cron", and gives some defacto suggestions. > > However, the a

[gentoo-dev] Feature Request/RFC : "Elective" virtuals

2012-06-28 Thread Kent Fredric
I was doing a fresh Gentoo install today, following the manual, and it appeared to me that the manual suggests to install a "logger" and a "cron", and gives some defacto suggestions. However, the available packages that provide this facility(s) are not overly obvious from a portage standpoint. Th