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On Tuesday 08 of January 2008 02:02:56 Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti: |
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> > Here comes the official proposal, copy and paste from my blog with an |
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> > extra post scriptum at the end. |
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> > I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our ebuilds |
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> > is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying to get |
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> > this fixed was impossible, as Donnie and other insisted that as zlib was |
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> > in system, we shouldn’t depend on it at all. I disagree, and I would |
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> > like to know why we can’t depend on a system package, but whatever. |
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> At least one reason is that otherwise lots of ebuild submissions would |
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> have coreutils/gcc/libc/whatever in DEPEND/RDEPEND. |
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We could probably introduce some fancy virtuals like c-toolchain to reduce the |
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bloat, but the transition would be somehow tricky... would probably need a |
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list of already converted packages. |
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Best Regards, |
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Piotr Jaroszyński |
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