List Archive: gentoo-dev
\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.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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