Bug 66393

Summary:	More virtuals please
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	matthias bernges <matthiasbernges>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	matthiasbernges
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description matthias bernges 2004-10-05 02:11:13 UTC

Hello,

could you add to the virtuals some things like:
virtual/dvdr cdrecord-prodvd
virtual/dvdr dvd+rw-tools
... (same for cdr)

and even

virtual/videoencoder media-video/transcode
virtual/videoencoder media-video/mplayer

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-05 02:13:31 UTC

There's no need unless another package depends on it. Virtuals are for purely for dependencies rather than a user abstraction. If you have a need of these virtuals for a reason here, then you need to open a bug for a specific package static the specific need.