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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:48:27
Message-Id: 20050615005202.65b6df8f@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read) by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:32:06 +0200
2 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I don't think gcc-config should depend on portage at all. Or does it
5 > actually use portage services. In any case it should be an RDEPEND,
6 > as building does not depend on portage being there.
7
8 Hmm, how do you build an ebuild without portage? Not trying to defend
9 that dependency, but technically all ebuilds DEPEND on portage (or a
10 compatible package manager), that's the most implicit dependency of all.
11
12 Marius
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