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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:06:02
Message-Id: 1093270141.17302.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness by Aaron Walker
1 On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:47, Aaron Walker wrote:
2 > #2 brings up a question that has confused me for a while; if an ebuild
3 > depends on a package (in this case gzip), which is included as part of
4 > the base system, is it assumed to exist or should it be added to DEPEND?
5
6 If the package is in system, it should not DEPEND on it *unless* it
7 requires a specific version or specific package (in the case of a
8 virtual).
9
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11 Chris Gianelloni
12 Release Engineering - QA/Operations Manager
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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>