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Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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>> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know how to |
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>> address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be updated to |
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>> contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need |
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>> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend. |
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> Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me. I |
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> though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea. |
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Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one of |
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the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update. |
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[1] http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/virtual/libc |
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