Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:22:52 +0100 Piotr Jaroszyński <peper@g.o>
wrote:
| > And, on a more general note, don't bother depending on a package
| > listed in base/packages. It's pointless and just create more noise.
| 
| It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of
| generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib
| b/c of that.

It's necessary for some system packages, yes. In general, unless your
package is likely to be included in part of system, there's no need to
specify system dependencies.

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