Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

[Marius Mauch]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:47:35 +0200
"Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:

> c) main problem is libiconv, but this is required just by a few
> packages (gettext, glib2, bogofilter) the other uses it with gettext;
> as they doesn't require a specific version, we can also add dev-libs/
> libiconv to glibc's PROVIDE and just depend on dev-libs/libiconv.
>
> What about this?

Sorry, but it's not a good idea to PROVIDE non-virtuals. Creates all
kinds of problems (just search for the gcc-4.7 bug).

Marius

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