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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that explicitly DEPEND on sys-apps/sed
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:42:34
Message-Id: 20110614044154.GA28891@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that explicitly DEPEND on sys-apps/sed by Jeroen Roovers
1 On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 06:14:06AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
2 > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:58:56 +0200
3 > Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Judging from [1], a couple of thousands of ebuilds DEPEND on
6 > > sys-apps/sed, which is a system package (in profiles/base/packages)
7 > > since at least 2004. It boils down to some 2535 ebuilds, 1409 packages
8 > > and 14 eclasses, some requiring a version as high as 4.0.5, which went
9 > > stable in 2003.
10
11 Since sys-apps/sed is a system package, I would vote for removing the
12 dependency from the ebuilds/eclasses.
13
14 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages that explicitly DEPEND on sys-apps/sed Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>