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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:36, Lina Pezzella wrote: |
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>>I would entirely agree on the second point there. System for macos has |
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>>very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is |
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>>provided by MacOS. At this point in the game, where we are porting |
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>>Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume" |
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>>much of anything. |
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>Shouldn't anything provided by MacOS itself be considered part of |
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>"system", since it would be there and is provided by the "system" |
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>component, which in your case happens to be MacOS? |
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>Also, if you notice, I corrected myself. In my original post, I did not |
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>mean that is how it should be done, but rather how it *is* done now in |
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>practice. |
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It actually is provided by package.provided, so in the case of gzip it's |
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a non-issue. I'm sorry for not being more clear on that. I didn't mean |
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to make any statements on how it currently is done, just on how it |
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should be done. Certain non-Linux userlands may not have the same |
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system requirements -- therefore imho the safest and most accurate way |
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to handle the situation is to provide proper DEPENDS in ebuilds |
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regardless of whether it's provided by system or not. |
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Just my two cents, nothing more. :-) |
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Regards, |
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Lina Pezzella |
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