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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:11:02
Message-Id: 55E8A93C.1030905@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile by Alec Ten Harmsel
1 On 03/09/2015 19:22, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
2 > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 04:27:26PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 03/09/2015 15:56, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
4 >>> dev-libs/check
5 >>> dev-libs/libnl
6 >>> dev-libs/openssl
7 >>
8 >> remove everything in dev-libs
9 >
10 > Not necessarily - dev-libs/check is for unit testing. It's not a direct
11 > dependency of any packages (or at least, shouldn't be), but it comes in
12 > useful for developers. It's in my world.
13
14
15 OK. Such anomolies do happen, I have a few myself. Usually for my own
16 code which obviously has no ebuild.
17
18 The only truism is still true - a Gentoo user must know their system
19 well enough to know *why* they put something in world
20
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22 --
23 Alan McKinnon
24 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com