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From: Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:06:18
Message-Id: eljdrb$mjc$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages by Stephen Bennett
1 Stephen Bennett wrote:
2 >> It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of
3 >> generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib
4 >> b/c of that.
5 >
6 > If you don't know about the unwritten yet near universal exception
7 > clause then you shouldn't be invoking it.
8 >
9 Could you spell out that exception clause, please?
10
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