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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:09:07
Message-Id: 201108231008.11277.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies by Michael
1 On Monday, August 22, 2011 15:21:23 Michael wrote:
2 > I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and
3 > what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal
4 > package installs.
5 >
6 > The devmanual seems to suggest that it's a bad thing for packages to
7 > explicitly depend on packages in the system set, while many packages in the
8 > tree do indeed explicitly depend upon packages such as zlib and ncurses.
9
10 file bugs for missing zlib/ncurses deps. if there are other packages you're
11 concerned with, ask now and we'll tell you.
12 -mike

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