On 03/28/2011 07:25 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > I hope my fears are unjustified but I'm not sure how the PMs would behave in > the following cases: > > a deps on b and virtual/ffmpeg > b deps on media-video/ffmpeg > > what happens when I want to install package 'a' on a fresh system ? the pm > tries to pull the virtual and thus libav and sees a blocker with the non > virtual one? > > same questions with: > a deps on media-video/ffmpeg > b deps on virtual/ffmpeg > > type 'emerge a b'
That's handled by delayed evaluation since portage-2.1.7: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264434 -- Thanks, Zac
