On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 08:15:46 +0100, antlists wrote:

> > That's the sort of thing I was thinking of. It could cause issues for
> > those that run emerge without checking what it is going to do, but
> > they are going to hit problems sometime anyway so they may as well
> > learn their lesson sooner;-)
> > 
> > Hmm, I hadn't realised there were so many virtuals, I just looked and
> > saw 186 of them.  
> 
> Bear in mind --ask is interactive by its very nature, maybe it should 
> ask "3 packages satisfy this virtual, please select ..."

Of course it is, I was considering that not everyone uses --ask, or
--pretend.
 
> Defaulting to package 1, of course.

Which is what those people would get, as they do now.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?

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