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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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>On Monday 23 August 2004 15:09, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>>If the package is in system, it should not DEPEND on it *unless* it |
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>>requires a specific version or specific package (in the case of a |
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>>virtual). |
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>I disagree. Making sure that packages have as accurate a list of DEPENDs as |
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>possible can only make life easier when porting Gentoo to userlands that are |
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>not Linux. |
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I would entirely agree on the second point there. System for macos has |
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very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is |
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provided by MacOS. At this point in the game, where we are porting |
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Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume" |
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much of anything. |
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