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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:26:27 +0100 Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o> |
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| We have a fair number of packages in the tree (57 someone said, but a |
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| non-trivial number) which depend upon sys-apps/acl for ACL support. |
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| Since the packages needed for this differ between platforms |
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| (sys-apps/acl is for linux only), if noone has any reasonable |
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| objections I will be adding a (new-style) virtual/acl for these |
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| packages sometime in the next week or so. |
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Good. This'll move the icky deps to one place rather than all over the |
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tree, at least. |
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As an aside, and not directed at spb... Would be nice if in the future |
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this kind of discussion were done *before* packages start to be changed |
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in weird and wonderful ways. It's generally considered bad manners to |
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start screwing around with other people's packages without asking... |
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Plus there's the whole "learn from past mistakes" issue. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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