From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3978 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 14:24:22 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 14:24:22 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzFkE-0008Gk-4o for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:24:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 15270 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2004 14:24:21 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1731 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 14:24:21 +0000 From: Chris Gianelloni Reply-To: wolf31o2@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1093270141.17302.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <4129F56D.6020701@butsugenjitemple.org> <1093270141.17302.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-x1J2s13DRar9LX7hGhmf" Organization: Gentoo Linux Message-Id: <1093271285.17308.20.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:28:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness X-Archives-Salt: c7cb3242-7015-4185-86ed-634bcbdbe738 X-Archives-Hash: 804789b6b8cf2a926034d16e32498437 --=-x1J2s13DRar9LX7hGhmf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > > depends on a package (in this case gzip), which is included as part of=20 > > the base system, is it assumed to exist or should it be added to DEPEND= ? >=20 > 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? --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux Is your power animal a penguin? --=-x1J2s13DRar9LX7hGhmf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBKf71kT4lNIS36YERAh6+AKCNvfe1VDuM40tNpfFTYH6oJqx0kQCeN9V5 elSC5iLY6phFt7b4ifENZD0= =Nize -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-x1J2s13DRar9LX7hGhmf--