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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:25:46PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Can someone enlighten me: why DEPEND/RDEPEND on packages which are *always* |
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> present on the system, and are even pre-built in build snapshots? For example |
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> some ebuilds explicitly depend on virtual/glibc, what's the point in that? |
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> Many ebuilds use things like flex bison etc. to compile. When creating |
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> non-critical, non-system ebuilds which certainly won't be built before glibc |
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> or the kernel - should I keep track of these things? |
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This is necessary so that you can build a complete system from scratch in the |
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right order, i.e: |
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# export ROOT=/mnt/gentoo |
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# emerge system |
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It's just safer to have some of these basic dependencies (like virtual/glibc) |
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since they help "emerge system" with the build ordering. Also, some of these |
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more basic dependencies *may not* be standard for embedded Gentoo Linux systems. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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