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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:58:32
Message-Id: 200609210950.19006.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable by Alin Nastac
1 On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:35, Alin Nastac wrote:
2 > For instance, the recent openssl-0.9.8* update broke dev-libs/neon (and
3 > consequently subversion) because neon library isn't happy just by
4 > linking with libssl.so.0.9.7 but also check the libssl version when
5 > loads the ssl library. Another example is the subtle dependency between
6 > the pppd version and pppd plugins (net-dialup/pptpd needs to be rebuild
7 > every time you change PV of the net-dialup/ppp because pptpd builds a
8 > plugin for the ppp daemon).
9
10 i guess you're referring to the plugins eh ? this was proposed some time ago
11 by eradicator but i dont know where that development track left off (my guess
12 is nowhere significant)
13 -mike