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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] problem with sys-apps/acl and sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:23:11
Message-Id: 20080416152259.GV979@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] problem with sys-apps/acl and sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2 by Hugo Venturini
1 On 16-04-2008 16:20:34 +0200, Hugo Venturini wrote:
2 > 2008/4/16, Bacchella Fabrice <fabrice.bacchella@×××××××.com>:
3 > > In usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-6.10-r2.ebuild,
4 > > it can be found :
5 > > RDEPEND="...
6 > > acl? ( sys-apps/acl )
7 > > ...
8 > >
9 > > But there is no such package. My svn portage version is 20817.
10 > >
11 >
12 > Mine is 20906 and tha acl ebuild cannot be found either.
13 > In the prefixed gentoo portage, you have to compile with USE="-acl" ...
14 >
15 > I try an explaination ... might be wrong though ...
16 > To install this package would need you to recompile your kernel ...
17 > since you install prefixed, it is fair to assume that you don't have
18 > the privilege to install a need kernel. Thus giving acl would not make
19 > a lot of sense ...
20 > But if you know that acl is already install on your distribution and
21 > you want your coreutils installation to make use of it, you may
22 > specify it like this in the file 'package.provided'
23
24 Real reason is that I never checked the deps so well, so I just never
25 hit this problem. I'd have to look into sys-apps/acl, what it does and
26 what it's possible chances of working are. Of course coreutils'
27 capabilities to do something on non-linux platforms with 'acl'.
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31 Fabian Groffen
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