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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:10:57 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| I've tried to be objective here so if my viewpoint isn't obvious I'll |
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| state it outright. I think all packages should depend on every |
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| package that they need to build and/or run. Whether this is done |
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| explicitly or with meta-packages, I don't really care. The only |
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| reason for not being explicit with deps is to cater for old sloppy |
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| versions of portage. Unless there are other reasons not stated here? |
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If you mandate that, any package using autotools will need around fifty |
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new entries in DEPEND. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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