On Saturday 30 April 2005 05:25, Jan KundrÃt wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/docs/virtuals-glep.txt > > Please forgive me if this ml is a bad place for suggestions. > > Ad "overrides" - what about "per-virtual" preferencies: > What happens if packages A and B provide functionality X, packages B & C > provide Y *and* you prefer B for X and C for Y? (This situation can be > actually solved by order "C > B > A", but that wouldn't be possible if C > provided X, too.)
Manually emerge one or the other. If you're wanting to keep such a case in sync across a network, add them to system. These "preferences" are only for the purposes of dependency calculation. The ebuilds themselves are essentially free to build against whatever they want. Regards, Jason
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