Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:47 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 00:02, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > There are other solutions a part the new virtuals?
> Ok just to summarize.
>
> a) getopt_long isn't important right now, FreeBSD 5 already takes care of it,
> if in the future it will be necessary for NetBSD, OpenBSD or DragonFly, it
> will be another issue.
>
> b) most of the packages requiring gettext at runtime already requires it at
> build time atm... the simple thing to do is moving this on runtime on the
> packages which needs when we'll stumble across it
>
> c) main problem is libiconv, but this is required just by a few packages
> (gettext, glib2, bogofilter) the other uses it with gettext; as they doesn't
> require a specific version, we can also add dev-libs/libiconv to glibc's
> PROVIDE and just depend on dev-libs/libiconv.
>

The issue I guess is that unlike it seems the common belief in the bsd
camp is, virtuals is not the ultimate cure for all that is twisted.

Rather do something like:

DEPEND="!userland_GNU? ( dev-libs/libiconv )"

(or '!elibc_glibc?' if that is more relevant if it might be needed for
uclibc/whatever)

Just keeping on heaping virtuals for everything is not the only way.  Or
just pull them in the profile.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa