On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:27:41 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 1. Devs don't want to have ebuilds that capture dependencies on every > little thing. A few well-chosen virtuals like "shell utilities" or > whatever might help with this. Just note that PMS specifies a few requirements about those utilities as well. I'm not sure if we want ebuilds explicitly DEPEND-ing on things which are required by PMS. In any case, virtual/posix-system would be nice to have. > 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies > of libraries in the core system it needs to link to. Careful use of > package.provided in profiles might address this. We could also make virtuals not pull in anything on Prefix in those cases. > 3. We'd need many more virtuals to handle situations like FreeBSD > where people don't what GNU on their systems. Right now if they are > system packages they just define system appropriately and ebuilds > don't directly pull in the GNU stuff anyway. I doubt that's a problem. We've got a lot of virtuals and adding new ones shouldn't be a problem. I'd dare say it's better to add more virtuals than introducing USEflags to existing ones -- it requires less work from users. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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