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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:28:57
Message-Id: 200506151126.08532.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read) by Marius Mauch
1 On Wednesday 15 June 2005 00:52, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:32:06 +0200
3 >
4 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
5 > > I don't think gcc-config should depend on portage at all. Or does it
6 > > actually use portage services. In any case it should be an RDEPEND,
7 > > as building does not depend on portage being there.
8 >
9 > Hmm, how do you build an ebuild without portage? Not trying to defend
10 > that dependency, but technically all ebuilds DEPEND on portage (or a
11 > compatible package manager), that's the most implicit dependency of
12 > all.
13
14 I think you know what I mean. By definition portage is allready there for
15 the ebuild to be evaluated. It is therefore unnecessary to specify it as
16 a dependency. Besides that for most packages any compatible package
17 manager should work (there just is only portage now though).
18
19 Paul
20
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22 Paul de Vrieze
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