On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > package.provided is listed in PMS as "strongly deprecated" and > "optional" since a long time. Does anybody still need the file as part > of a profile, or could we finally ban it in the next EAPI? > > (This is _not_ about package.provided in /etc/portage which is Portage > only and unspecified by PMS.) >
I believe that Portage does not support package.provided in /etc/portage. It does support it in /etc/portage/profile, which overrides profile stuff from /etc/portage/make.profile. I would like to see portage support package.provided independent of profiles if that's going to get banned in some future EAPI.
