On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:45 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > 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.
OK... You sold me. So create a virtual/eject... =] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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