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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:25:16
Message-Id: 200508271820.04388@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Saturday 27 August 2005 18:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > The circular autothing <-> wrapper dependency will be phased out at
3 > some point in the future once all auto* deps properly specify versions.
4 > The aim is to remove the need to install certain obscure auto* slots
5 > that are becoming rarer and rarer.
6 Well then it can be tweaked to include just the wrapper dependencies, leaving
7 to the ebuild to specify the dependency on the right autotool, so that if the
8 right autotool will be missing we have a meaningful message?
9
10 --
11 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
12 Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
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