Re: [gentoo-dev] Death to old-style virtuals!

2010-12-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 05:33:06PM +0200, Petteri RRRty wrote: There's still that stupid !virtual/blah thing to deal with. Old style virtual providers are allowed to block their own virtual to mean there must not be any other provider of this installed (although it's not clear what that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Death to old-style virtuals!

2010-12-26 Thread Petteri Räty
On 12/17/2010 08:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Old-style virtuals are extremely messy and introduce an awful lot of complexity. They were supposed to be on the way out several years ago, with GLEP 37, but that seems to have stalled. Is there anything in particular holding back replacing most