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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:50:57
Message-Id: 20010723125057.A17094@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components by Dan Armak
1 On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:49:36PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
2
3 > I understand that. Problem is, most packages don't have a published list for
4 > the basic utilities which they use. To find out you basically have to read
5 > the Makefile and look for any such commands. Buildinig an 'empty' system that
6 > doesn't even have flex etc. sounds rather difficult, unless I just remove
7 > flex from an existing one. So in really high-level things like enscript which
8 > I just added, is it an absolute must?
9 > Besides this is easy enough to fix if someone encounters a missing dependency.
10
11 Just try your best to be comprehensive; we can always add more dependencies as
12 they are found. But a comprehensive, accurate set of dependencies *is* a good
13 thing.
14
15 --
16 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
17 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
18 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>