Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency

[Ian Stakenvicius]

> On Nov 15, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
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>>> On 13/11/14 09:05 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>>> On 11/13/2014 05:30 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
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>>>> Suggested policy to get the ball rolling:
>>>>
>>>> In general, a package must explicitly depend upon what it
>>>> directly uses. However, to avoid ebuild complexity and developer
>>>> burden there are some exceptions. Packages that appear in the
>>>> base system set may be omitted from an ebuild's dependency list
>>>> in the following circumstances:
>>>>
>>>> * C compiler and runtime
>>>
>>> Specifically sys-devel/gcc and sys-libs/glibc (i.e. what's in
>>> @system), or just anything?
>>
>> I would sincerely hope that nothing in the tree explicitly requires
>> gcc as a C compiler.
>
> You say this, and then mention glibc in the next sentence. Glibc can
> only be built with gcc. :)
>

Sorry, I meant to say nothing other than toolchain-related packages :). Thanks for clarifying for me 


>> Glibc is a bit different, it may be necessary to explicitly depend on
>> it (or use the elibc_glibc flag) if the package can't work with the
>> libc alternatives, but ideally
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