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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:24:42
Message-Id: 20030526192439.GB9995@time
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes by George Shapovalov
1 George Shapovalov wrote:[Mon May 26 2003, 02:49:36PM EDT]
2 > As such it makes sense to put some absolutely something basic in
3 > DEPEND for the package which does not have any apparent (as
4 > non-trivial, not bad-researched) dependencies. In that respect
5 > virtual/glibc perfectly fits the bill...
6
7 DEPEND="" works just as well. Since glibc is in the default profile,
8 there's no reason to list it as a dependency, just like we can assume
9 some basic shell utilities are present when the ebuild is processed.
10
11 Aron
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Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes Zach Welch <zwelch@g.o>