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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and friends), ...
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:53:31
Message-Id: 3607031.u8mtVuL4vq@porto
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.26 and changes with SunRPC, libtirpc, ntirpc, libnsl (NIS and friends), ... by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017, 07:06:24 CEST schrieb Duncan:
2 > Andreas K. Huettel posted on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:56:30 +0200 as excerpted:
3 > > It may not always be obvious where this is needed, since net-libs/libnsl
4 > > is already pulled in deep in the dependency tree (my @system chroot has
5 > > it).
6 >
7 > FWIW, while it may be deep in the @system dependency tree, I don't have
8 > libnsl installed here, so if it's not in @system directly, it's
9 > apparently pulled into @system by USE deps of some sort, via USE flags
10 > that aren't required to be on, in at least some reasonably general
11 > purpose plasma desktop configurations.
12
13 [snip]
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15 Do you run glibc-2.26 already? I hope not, because it's >>unkeyworded<< and
16 I'm still changing things without warning there... :) [*]
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18 With any other glibc, it's part of sys-libs/glibc.
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20 And you will need it, because part of dev-lang/python links to it (for us)
21 unconditionally.
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24 [*] If yes, please join #gentoo-toolchain, because that's the only place where
25 I right now mention when I break something. :)
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27 --
28 Andreas K. Hüttel
29 dilfridge@g.o
30 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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