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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Subject: Re: Re: RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:08 -0700
\On 20:10 Tue 15 Jul     , Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> On 2008-07-15 21:40, Tiziano Müller uttered these thoughts:
> > Yes. I think that's something which should be done manually.
> 
> Indeed, the correct solution would be to state the deps manually in each
> ebuild that requires the dep. But in this case it would mean adjusting
> the DEPEND string of pretty much the entire tree. Until such measures
> are stated required, this would be a good middle ground, no?

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.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
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