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author | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> | 2011-06-11 21:04:34 +0100 |
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committer | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> | 2011-06-11 22:01:23 +0100 |
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Ding dong, old-style virtuals are dead
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diff --git a/profiles.tex b/profiles.tex index 2dba163..8246431 100644 --- a/profiles.tex +++ b/profiles.tex @@ -63,19 +63,6 @@ bash syntax, is allowed as follows: \item Backslashes, except for line continuations, are not allowed. \end{compactitem} -\subsection{virtuals} -\label{sec:profiles-virtuals} -The \t{virtuals} file defines default providers for ``old-style'' virtual packages. It is a simple -line-based file, with each line containing two whitespace-delimited tokens. The first is a virtual -package name (for example, \t{virtual/alsa}) and the second is a qualified package name. Blank lines -and those beginning with a \# character are ignored. When attempting to resolve a virtual name to a -concrete package, the specification defined in the active profile's \t{virtuals} list should be used if no -provider is already installed. - -The \t{virtuals} file is inherited in the simplest manner: all entries from the parent profile are -loaded, then entries from the current profile. If a virtual package name appears in both, the entry -in the parent profile is discarded. - \subsection{Simple line-based files} \label{sec:line-stacking} These files are a simple one-item-per-line list, which is inherited in the following manner: the |