On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 10:09, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 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).

Allow me to clarify this... while this is how things are *currently*
done, it is probably not the best way to go about it, especially since
we are starting to see more divergent profiles.  After all, what if your
application actually *requires* glibc?  It definitely won't work on one
of the uclibc profiles, now will it?

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Chris Gianelloni
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