Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: auto-detection of unpack dependencies

[Gokdeniz Karadag]

If an ebuild lists bzip2 in DEPEND, the package manager has to bring it in.
The proposed method would only add automatically determined dependencies, not 
remove what you listed in DEPEND.

A hypothetical problem is; If a package source file has a bz extension but does 
not need bzip2 in any way, an extra dependency is in effect. But can this 
situation ever happen ? I guess not.

Rémi Cardona demis ki::
> Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> Manual override as in "emerge --nodeps" or something.
>
> No, manual override as in "the ebuild turns off auto-detection and
> specifically asks for app-arch/{bzip2,gzip,tar,whatever} using DEPEND"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rémi

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