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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:09:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093270141.17302.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4129F56D.6020701@butsugenjitemple.org>

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On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:47, Aaron Walker wrote:
> #2 brings up a question that has confused me for a while; if an ebuild 
> depends on a package (in this case gzip), which is included as part of 
> the base system, is it assumed to exist or should it be added to DEPEND?

If the package is in system, it should not DEPEND on it *unless* it
requires a specific version or specific package (in the case of a
virtual).

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - QA/Operations Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-23 13:47 [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:02 ` Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:09 ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2004-08-23 14:20   ` Stuart Herbert
2004-08-23 15:36     ` Lina Pezzella
2004-08-23 17:54       ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-08-23 18:26         ` Lina Pezzella
2004-08-24 15:30       ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-24 15:59         ` Will Buckner
2004-09-07 12:55         ` Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:28   ` Chris Gianelloni

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