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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:53:57
Message-Id: 200506141851.46501.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read) by Marius Mauch
1 On Tuesday 14 June 2005 06:52 pm, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:32:06 +0200
3 >
4 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
5 > > I don't think gcc-config should depend on portage at all. Or does it
6 > > actually use portage services. In any case it should be an RDEPEND,
7 > > as building does not depend on portage being there.
8 >
9 > Hmm, how do you build an ebuild without portage? Not trying to defend
10 > that dependency, but technically all ebuilds DEPEND on portage (or a
11 > compatible package manager), that's the most implicit dependency of all.
12
13 i assume you didnt read the reply i made already ...
14
15 gcc-config DEPEND-ed on a specific version of portage (the first one to
16 provide portageq to userspace)
17 -mike
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