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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 -0400 |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> >> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know |
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> >> how to address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be |
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> >> updated to contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need |
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> >> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend. |
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> > Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me. |
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> > I though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea. |
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> Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one |
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> of the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update. |
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Now that's a big exaggeration. It _might_ be missing from world updates |
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(there are still many cases where it will be included), but that's not |
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the only available operation in portage. |
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Marius |
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