Excerpts from Mike Kelly's message of to. sep. 24 17:26:56 +0200 2009: > There're some packages, like dev-perl/autodie, dev-perl/Module-Build, > etc, which exist both as separate packages, and as part of core perl > itself. To make things more confusing, not all versions of perl contain > them. And you can't even just do a simple ">=5.10" for some, since > there's 5.8.9 which came out later. > > So, one solution that has been suggested is to add 2 new metadata keys, > CONTAINS and CONTAINED_IN. They would each be space-separated lists of > packages.
Isn't this just a special case of virtuals? why not try to solve both at one time, to keep consistency. It basically boils down to a package or user needing a feature that is provided by two or more packages. The effect is that both CONTAINS and CONTAINED_IN lack a central place to relate. And adding another package that provides the feature means updating all the CONTAINS and CONTAINED_IN packages. Which package is to be the CONTAINS package and which is the CONTAINED_IN one(s) ? - gaute _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
