| Summary: | sys-apps/portage: package.provided does not work for virtuals unless the version corresponds to an available ebuild | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Zac Medico <zmedico> |
| Component: | Core - Interface (emerge) | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Due to the way that the _expand_new_virtuals function generates atoms referring to specific versions of virtuals, package.provided does not work for virtuals unless it refers to the specific version resolved by _expand_new_virtuals. This atoms generated by _expand_new_virtuals are visible in the verbose --depclean output. For example: $ emerge -pv --depclean virtual/shadow Calculating dependencies... done! virtual/shadow-0 pulled in by: @system requires virtual/shadow mail-mta/nullmailer-1.13-r5 requires =virtual/shadow-0, virtual/shadow net-misc/openssh-7.3_p1-r7 requires =virtual/shadow-0, virtual/shadow