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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:31:17 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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| On Thursday 02 June 2005 21:12, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Make it a PDEPEND of portage. Much cleaner. |
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| I won't argue on the merits of virtuals compared to direct |
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| dependencies, but why do you choose PDEPEND? |
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Because portage currently always pulls in RDEPENDs before the main |
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package, and because it makes figuring out system / bootstrap deps much |
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easier if portage has as little as possible being pulled in before it. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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