On 13/03/12 00:34, »Q« wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200
Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES
support in portage?
IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that
some devs started keeping up a steady drumbeat on irc and mailing
lists. When the number of virtual packages gets close to a thousand,
I'd guess that might happen. Then there would be years of discussion
and GLEP proposals, and by EAPI 207 it should be done.
The problem isn't the amount of virtuals. This doesn't affect the users
much. It's the inability for people to offer replacement packages in
overlays.
