On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 -0400
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:

> Olivier Crête wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> >   
> >> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know
> >> how to address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be
> >> updated to contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need 
> >> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend.
> >>     
> >
> > Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me.
> > I though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea.
> >
> >   
> Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one
> of the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update.

Now that's a big exaggeration. It _might_ be missing from world updates
(there are still many cases where it will be included), but that's not
the only available operation in portage.

Marius
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