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On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:29 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Monday 21 May 2012 12:08:21 Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: |
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> > Realistically, every Gentoo machine, with the exception of pure deployment |
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> > installations that don't build any packages (and therefore don't care about |
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> > autotools.eclass anyway), already has intltool installed. |
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> extending the set of machines that you care about to include all setups is |
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> obviously wrong (i certainly have machines that "build packages" that don't |
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> have intltool installed). and even if that wasn't true, it'd be entirely |
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> irrelevant. spurious dependencies are not acceptable. |
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> -mike |
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I apologize; I must have run "equery d intltool" while experimenting |
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with a patched autotools.eclass, and that led me to grossly overestimate |
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the number of packages depending on intltool. |
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So you are correct, many Gentoo machines do not have any reason to have |
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intltool installed. |
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-Alexandre. |