>>>>> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Sat, 2021-01-30 at 18:35 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> To make this SOVERSION-virtual concept more visible and easily >> distinguishable from regular virtuals, I'd like to propose that we >> start >> moving them into a dedicated category. For example, 'lib-sover' >> comes >> to my mind. While this ofc doesn't guarantee that people will do >> things >> right, it will at least make it clear that these packages are >> somewhat >> different from regular virtuals and hopefully avoid making wrong >> assumptions.
> I would go all the way and move (say) the libjpeg provider to media- > libs/libjpeg. Either that, or the opposite of it, i.e. move it to something like virtual/libjpeg-soname to make the intention clear. Whatever we would choose, I don't think that we need a new category for this. Also, moving these virtuals out of virtual/ would require updating several tools. For example, tools must handle empty HOMEPAGE and LICENSE. Ulrich
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