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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:40:17
Message-Id: 20080110184008.77dbaa44@delenn.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
1 On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:42:57 +0100
2 flameeyes@×××××.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote:
3
4 > I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our
5 > ebuilds is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying
6 > to get this fixed was impossible, as Donnie and other insisted that
7 > as zlib was in system, we shouldn’t depend on it at all. I disagree,
8 > and I would like to know why we can’t depend on a system package, but
9 > whatever.
10
11 Somewhat related:
12 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2575
13
14 Marius
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