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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] more broken depednencies
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:58:58
Message-Id: 200312281358.46788.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] more broken depednencies by Spider
1 On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:32, Spider wrote:
2 > begin quote
3 > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:22:53 -0500
4 >
5 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
6 > > On Saturday 27 December 2003 19:24, Spider wrote:
7 > > > Oh yes! even more.
8 > > >
9 > > > Can people who feel like it take a look for all builds that contain
10 > > > the
11 > > > word "newdepend" and think at least twice? remember.. newdepend
12 > > > means that RDEPEND won't be set (unless you do newrdepend) which
13 > > > means that the package will be broken in GRP situations.
14 > > >
15 > > > (Yep, its a known fact that all of KDE is broken and unless fixed
16 > > > cannot be reliably distributed on our next release.)
17 > >
18 > > the newXdepend's should only be used in eclasses
19 >
20 > Even worse, there are ~300 ebuilds in the tree that uses them.
21
22 It might have been an idea for that the people changing the semantics would
23 also have announced the need for a fix.
24
25 Paul
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28 Paul de Vrieze
29 Gentoo Developer
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