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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:56:57AM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> In situations where we modify aclocal or configure.in, i think it is better |
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> to run autoconf/... and add a patch for all modified files instead of running |
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> autoconf from the ebuild. This simplifies package dependencies and makes it |
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> possible to build all packages without autoconf/automake/m4/perl installed. |
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I don't think that this really matters for packages like GNOME (after all, if |
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you're installing GNOME then you probably also have autoconf/Perl,etc. |
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installed :), but this technique would be useful for critical system packages, |
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like those found in sys-*. However, "emerge" should be able to sort out the |
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build/runtime deps perfectly in either case -- as long as the DEPEND and |
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RDEPEND strings are set correctly. |
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Though I'll agree, it would be nice to have a Perl-free system (drobbins hides) |
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:P |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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