On Friday 27 May 2005 15:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I'm just curious, but why exactly is a virtual needed? Well there are nine packages (and probably there can be others) which needs eject, and the eject commands are going to be quite a few if there isn't an "universal" eject as every os has its own way to eject a CD-Rom. So we'll have eject for linux, eject-bsd for freebsd (and maybe openbsd, don't know), eject-osx (and maybe eject-darwin) and eventual eject-solaris if there will ever be a solaris port. Every kernel has its own syscalls, and using conditional deps for every kernel on more than a couple of packages will surely be something annoying for maintainers.
-- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
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