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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog profiles.desc
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:08:39
Message-Id: 20120919090708.7681727e@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog profiles.desc by Mike Frysinger
1 On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:40:42 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Monday 17 September 2012 10:57:50 Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > net-misc/wget/wget-1.14.ebuild:
6 > > ~amd64-fbsd(default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/9.0) ['sys-apps/util-linux']
7 > >
8 > > bumped by you, earlier, probably when you made your local change.
9 > > util-_linux_
10 >
11 > except it isn't linux specific. if you follow upstream, you'll see
12 > that people are constantly making sure that it is possible to build
13 > it on non-linux systems.
14
15 well, I've never been able to build it.
16
17 >
18 > > uuid functions are provided by either e2fsprogs-libs or the
19 > > libc on freebsd.
20 >
21 > e2fsprogs-libs hasn't provided libuuid in a long time. that those
22 > are still in the tree is part laziness. relying on it to provide
23 > libuuid isn't going to work.
24
25 i know, the libc ones should be used. libuuid, whereever it comes from,
26 will always only be used during a transition period while the package is
27 getting fixed to use the libc ones.