Michał Górny wrote: > > There is a number of virtuals in Gentoo which switching active > implementation via eselect. However, most of the packages being > 'alternative providers' don't seem to care about eselect at all. Is > that the correct thing to do, or maybe should every package ensure > that after its removal another implementation is eselected > (or a cleanup is done)? >
we have been using for quite a while now the alternatives-2 eclass in the science overlay for many virtual packages. the nice thing about it apart from implementing the issues you raised is we do not have to write a new eselect package for the virtual. sebastien
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