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On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 10:09, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:47, Aaron Walker wrote: |
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> > #2 brings up a question that has confused me for a while; if an ebuild |
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> > depends on a package (in this case gzip), which is included as part of |
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> > the base system, is it assumed to exist or should it be added to DEPEND? |
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> If the package is in system, it should not DEPEND on it *unless* it |
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> requires a specific version or specific package (in the case of a |
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> virtual). |
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Allow me to clarify this... while this is how things are *currently* |
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done, it is probably not the best way to go about it, especially since |
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we are starting to see more divergent profiles. After all, what if your |
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application actually *requires* glibc? It definitely won't work on one |
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of the uclibc profiles, now will it? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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