On 20:25 Tue 15 Jul     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:08 -0700
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> > Could someone explain why manually doing work is better than 
> > automatically detecting the deps? This sounds like an argument
> > against automation, and I'm not following it.
> 
> Sometimes the magic will be wrong. For example, packages that have
> a .zip file in SRC_URI but that don't unpack that file (say, if they
> install it into sharedir as-is instead) don't need a dep upon unzip.

Indeed, that is a great argument for the RESTRICT. I wonder how many 
packages do this? To get a quick idea, I did this grep:

  grep '\.zip' /usr/portage/*/*/*ebuild \
    | grep -v -e http -e ftp -e mirror -e unpack -e SRC_URI -e unzip

It produced a reasonable number of results, and I didn't investigate 
further.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com