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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:33:34
Message-Id: 200807181630.23711.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set by Doug Goldstein
1 2008-07-18 16:01:28 Doug Goldstein napisał(a):
2 > Olivier Crte wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
4 > >
5 > >> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know how to
6 > >> address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be updated to
7 > >> contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need
8 > >> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend.
9 > >>
10 > >
11 > > Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me. I
12 > > though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea.
13 > >
14 > >
15 > Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one of
16 > the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update.
17
18 IMHO it would be better to teach users to explicitly specify '@system' during
19 updates, e.g. `emerge -uDN @system @world`.
20
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22 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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