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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:30:04 -0700 |
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> If I have a package that produces a dynamic (non-static) binary, and |
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> it has no other deps, then I throw in virtual/libc. |
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> If it produces a static binary only, or no binary, then it gets "". |
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If you're going to do that, static binaries would usually depend on |
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virtual/libc to be built (using libc.a) so it would be in DEPEND but |
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explicitly removed from RDEPEND. |
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> What I would like to see at some point, is a real way of differencing |
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> packages that really have no runtime dependencies - not even anything |
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> in the system packages. As to what the best way to go about it, I'm |
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> not certain, but I do think specifying a few packages: |
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> virtual/compiler, virtual/libc and a few limited things from system |
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> packages should be ok. Or maybe even virtual/system (with the |
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> compiler removed from that virtual). |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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