Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:15:59PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I would say you don't. Just emerge the package you want (as you already > > mentioned). > > Okay. And why am I able to preselect the mta the way I > demonstrated? Because virtual/mta is not a real package. It's just some sort of alias that can be change through files in a profile. The new-style virtuals OTOH are real packages that RDEPEND upon the packages that provide the functionality. They are not aliases that can be changed through files in your profile. Cheers, Emil -- Emil Beinroth 83059 Kolbermoor | Germany "You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" -- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith pgpfkmmqzJbcr.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?
Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the >> > default choice. >> >> How does it do that? > > It's done by using the RDEPEND variable inside the virtual/editor > ebuild. > > RDEPEND="|| ( app-editors/nano > app-editors/dav > ..." > > That says that the package needs any of the packages in parentheses to > run. If none of them are installed, the first one in the list is > selected to be installed. (AFAIK) Thx. Understood. [...] >> How do I make it select something else? > > I would say you don't. Just emerge the package you want (as you already > mentioned). Okay. And why am I able to preselect the mta the way I demonstrated? Alexander -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
