On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:59:41 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I concur that it makes a lot of sense, fitting in exactly with the > meaning originally given. That it means 'zero-install-cost' is > neither here nor there imo; 'virtual' is a well understood terms for > the same thing: an ebuild that doesn't in itself install anything.
Except that that's not what it's being used to mean. It's being used to mean "the cost of selecting this when doing dependency resolution cost analysis is zero", which is an entirely different thing. > It's clearly something that can be useful across the tree, and can > apply to an ebuild as opposed to a package. Forcing a category (or a > pkgmove which is a pita aiui) seems inelegant (and doesn't enable the > second use-case); the property is far more appropriate, and as you > say, 'virtual' is less confusing for a user than 'zero-install-cost', > especially within Gentoo. Users don't need to see it. Heck, most developers don't need to see it. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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