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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] default RDEPEND?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:57:07
Message-Id: 200604291254.30187.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] default RDEPEND? by Alin Nastac
1 On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:08, Alin Nastac wrote:
2 > Huh? How about:
3 > RDEPEND="|| ( dev-util/cvs dev-util/subversion )"
4
5 Similar problem as with Tuan's version: It's intransparent to the user and he
6 has no choice, unless he looks into the ebuild. || ( foo bar ) is only an
7 option, if you have two packages providing the same functionality, but a
8 virtual is not in order. On the other hand, if the scm support is not a core
9 functionality of the application, I'd refrain from adding these optional
10 runtime dependencies and simply add a post install message instead.
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13 Carsten