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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:06:11
Message-Id: 5464BAC3.1090908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency by Michael Palimaka
1 On 11/13/2014 05:30 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
2 >
3 > Suggested policy to get the ball rolling:
4 >
5 > In general, a package must explicitly depend upon what it directly uses.
6 > However, to avoid ebuild complexity and developer burden there are some
7 > exceptions. Packages that appear in the base system set may be omitted
8 > from an ebuild's dependency list in the following circumstances:
9 >
10 > * C compiler and runtime
11
12 Specifically sys-devel/gcc and sys-libs/glibc (i.e. what's in @system),
13 or just anything?
14
15 > * C++ compiler and runtime
16
17 Isn't it possible to disable C++ in GCC with USE="-cxx"?

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>