Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:55:36 -0400 solar <solar@g.o> wrote:
| Please do not put words in my mouth. I've already asserted to you
| several times that the definition of RDEPEND= is unclear and that we
| do infact need a new set of depend atoms. R=(runtime) not Buildtime
| for the NNth time. Till then please focus your efforts on something
| useful that does not break other peoples systems or projects.

Given the choice of possibly causing minor inconvenience to the embedded
people or outright breaking the tree for every single user, the sane
option is to keep the tree working. If embedded has a requirement for
better DEPEND specifications, why don't they start working on a GLEP?

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