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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:05:19 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
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<flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
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| On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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| > I don't like it. It removes the ability to DEPEND (which you spelt
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| > wrong, btw) upon the correct auto* version.
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| Yeah I know I typoed.
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| About the version.. well you just can't depend upon a specified
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| version anyway.
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| When you depend on whatever autoconf it depends on autoconf-wrapper,
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| that depends on both the version of autoconf we have.
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| The same goes for automake.
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The circular autothing <-> wrapper dependency will be phased out at
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some point in the future once all auto* deps properly specify versions.
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The aim is to remove the need to install certain obscure auto* slots
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that are becoming rarer and rarer.
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--
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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