From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailgw2.netvision.net.il ([194.90.1.9]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15OkNR-0004Kv-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:24:21 -0600 Received: from localhost (ras6-p83.rlz.netvision.net.il [62.0.86.211]) by mailgw2.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA14780 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:27:02 +0300 (IDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dan Armak To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072321254601.00599@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jul 23 12:25:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:25:46 +0300 X-Archives-Salt: 49ddffa1-838b-410f-9b73-54834aafe3e5 X-Archives-Hash: 304c8cb9595d8d1a463ab4ff8961cff0 Hi all, Can someone enlighten me: why DEPEND/RDEPEND on packages which are *always* present on the system, and are even pre-built in build snapshots? For example some ebuilds explicitly depend on virtual/glibc, what's the point in that? Many ebuilds use things like flex bison etc. to compile. When creating non-critical, non-system ebuilds which certainly won't be built before glibc or the kernel - should I keep track of these things? -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux Developer Matan, Israel