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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:55:02
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad1003031054s71b7782v536f41f39146626@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
2 > I don't think there was any such problem until poppler maintainers
3 > decided to unsplit poppler into one big packages with USE flags again
4 > instead of the nice split poppler, poppler-glib (that should have been
5 > named poppler-cairo probably instead), poppler-qt3, poppler-qt4 and
6 > poppler-utils.
7
8 Also of note is that we've made efforts to split packages to avoid
9 circular dependencies[1]. So it's really silly to add circular deps by
10 un-splitting packages.
11
12
13 1. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269747#c11
14
15 --
16 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
17
18 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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