Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla Bug 79337 make repoman complain if DEPEND and RDEPEND are not set.
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:21:47
Message-Id: 20050601152150.GA8890@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla Bug 79337 make repoman complain if DEPEND and RDEPEND are not set. by Jason Stubbs
1 maillog: 01/06/2005-23:25:00(+0900): Jason Stubbs types
2 >...
3 > Perhaps, further down the track we'd be able to work out something with the
4 > build farm thingy; check for linkage and warn if things specified in RDEPEND
5 > aren't linked against and build up a whitelist from it... Perhaps repoman
6 > will become smart enough to detect exactly which RDEPENDs are being defaulted
7 > to what and where and then provide a warning and a resolution...
8
9 I don't get it. Linking is not the only reason for a package to RDEPEND
10 on another one.
11
12 Or were you talking about something completely different?
13
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