Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: xorg's RDEPEND

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:52 -0300, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
> On 5/18/05, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > How is it that you know those two greps will catch everything?
> I don't. In fact I am sure they don't catch everything: given a Turing
> machine one can replace all halts by a "do something with flex". So it
> is undecidable if x11 rdepends on flex (or xbill) and one must prove
> it to be sure. I just want to give some indications that flex is not a
> dependency.
> 
> Another one:
> epm -ql flex:
> there is some docs, some infos and a man page. I assume that X doesn't
> need those.
> there is a static lib and a header. As far as I know X doesn't compile
> anything after it is installed.
> there is the flex binary. As far as I know X doesn't create lexical
> analyzer after it is installed.
> 
> Please don't missunderstand me. I am not being pedantic. I am creating
> a thin-client with gentoo and would like to make it easier for someone
> that wants to do that something similar afterwards.

emerge pxes

:P

OK, so it isn't exactly the same thing, but I don't see much point in
reinventing the wheel.

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

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