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Dan Armak wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Can someone enlighten me: why DEPEND/RDEPEND on packages which are *always* |
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> present on the system, and are even pre-built in build snapshots? For example |
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> some ebuilds explicitly depend on virtual/glibc, what's the point in that? |
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> Many ebuilds use things like flex bison etc. to compile. When creating |
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> non-critical, non-system ebuilds which certainly won't be built before glibc |
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> or the kernel - should I keep track of these things? |
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Well the glibc dependencie is there to spearate packages that need glibc |
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from those who do not link against it |
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like for example docs or some java binary packages. If a package links |
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agains flex then flex should be in the depend variable, if it only uses |
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the flex binary during build, you don't have to add it to depend. |
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bye achim~ |
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> -- |
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> Dan Armak |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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> Matan, Israel |
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