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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain |
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> (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use |
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> "!prefix? ( elibc_glibc? ( ...) )" |
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> stuff at the moment. |
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Half the packages in portage link to libc, though they don't actually |
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declare this dependency due to the policy of not declaring policies in |
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@system. If you got rid of @system then they'd need to declare them. |
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However, use of virtuals or package.provided would address this issue |
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- I was just pointing it out. |
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Rich |
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