Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving subslot-only virtuals to a separate category to reduce confusion

2021-01-31 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving subslot-only virtuals to a separate category to reduce confusion

2021-01-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving subslot-only virtuals to a separate category to reduce confusion

2021-01-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 9:36 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > TL;DR: I'd like to move virtual/libjpeg, virtual/libudev and so on to > another category (e.g. lib-sover/*) to make it clear that they are used > for := deps and have valid use even with a single provider. > > > Right now we have at

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving subslot-only virtuals to a separate category to reduce confusion

2021-01-30 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, TL;DR: I'd like to move virtual/libjpeg, virtual/libudev and so on to another category (e.g. lib-sover/*) to make it clear that they are used for := deps and have valid use even with a single provider. Right now we have at least a few packages that provide more than one valid