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Fabian Groffen posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:51:06 +0100 as excerpted: |
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>> Are there any less obvious ones |
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> Some that you may find are: |
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> /lib/libm.so |
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> /lib/libsocket.so |
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> /lib/libpthread.so |
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> /lib/libnsl.so |
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> On a side note, we have a question about this in our |
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> prefix-ebuild-quiz[1] (question 5 from the second section). |
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> I think there's unfortunately no simple way to tell what should be in |
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> and what unfortunately has to be out. It depends a lot on the host |
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> system. I feel -- but I can't back this up with hard evidence -- that |
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> it are usually the libs that are not in *DEPEND that can only be |
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> available in the host system. Basically because they usually are part |
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> of the libc, which we assume to be installed. |
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> [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/prefix-quiz |
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Thanks again. That quiz was particularly enlightening (to this gentoo, |
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not prefix, user) on the type of stuff you think about, as a part of what |
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prefix /does/. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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