Date: Mon Jan  8 11:44:45 PST 2007
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>

Document the fact that using virtual/* in package.provided does NOT work.
They should be in the 'virtuals' file instead.

Add a check to portage.py for virtual/ entries in package.provided.

diff -Nuar portage-2.1.2_rc4.orig/man/portage.5 portage-2.1.2_rc4/man/portage.5
--- portage-2.1.2_rc4.orig/man/portage.5	2006-10-24 18:30:30.000000000 -0700
+++ portage-2.1.2_rc4/man/portage.5	2007-01-08 11:43:54.000000000 -0800
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@
 tell portage that 'sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7' is already taken 
 care of and it should get off your back about it.
 
+virtual packages (virtual/*) should not be specified in package.provided. They
+should be placed in the virtuals file instead.
+
 .I Format:
 .nf
 \- comments begin with #
diff -Nuar portage-2.1.2_rc4.orig/pym/portage.py portage-2.1.2_rc4/pym/portage.py
--- portage-2.1.2_rc4.orig/pym/portage.py	2007-01-08 11:42:06.000000000 -0800
+++ portage-2.1.2_rc4/pym/portage.py	2007-01-08 11:48:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -1353,6 +1353,10 @@
 					writemsg("Invalid package name in package.provided: "+pkgprovidedlines[x]+"\n",
 						noiselevel=-1)
 					del pkgprovidedlines[x]
+				if cpvr[0] == "virtual":
+					writemsg("Virtual packages should be in virtuals, not package.provided: "+pkgprovidedlines[x]+"\n",
+						noiselevel=-1)
+					del pkgprovidedlines[x]
 
 			self.pprovideddict = {}
 			for x in pkgprovidedlines: