Bug 936465

Summary:	Virtuals page doesn't describe what virtuals are for.
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas>
Component:	Devmanual	Assignee:	Gentoo Devmanual Team <devmanual>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/virtuals/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joey Pabalinas 2024-07-21 18:44:19 UTC

The devmanual wiki page doesn't explain what the purpose of virtuals is (which is to have other packages, at least two, which plug into the virtual, then you lise the virtual as the dependency.)

I had to ask IRC in #gentoo-dev-help to find this out.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2024-07-21 18:54:32 UTC

We should also talk about what virtuals *aren't* for while we're at it, as I often have to explain that.