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Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> dependencies are forward specifications from upstream telling |
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> us what their software needs to function properly. |
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Unfortunately that's not the full story. :\ |
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ebuilds often (for me) have artificial dependencies, when the actual |
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version required is too old to be in the tree, but maybe not too old |
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to be installed on an existing system. |
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I think it's bad policy to lie about dependencies in ebuilds for the |
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sole reason of only ever depending on versions which actually exist |
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in the same snapshot. It's a too simplistic model of reality. |
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//Peter |