From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components
Date: Mon Jul 23 12:51:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010723125057.A17094@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01072321493602.00599@localhost>; from danarmak@gentoo.org on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:49:36PM +0300
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:49:36PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> I understand that. Problem is, most packages don't have a published list for
> the basic utilities which they use. To find out you basically have to read
> the Makefile and look for any such commands. Buildinig an 'empty' system that
> doesn't even have flex etc. sounds rather difficult, unless I just remove
> flex from an existing one. So in really high-level things like enscript which
> I just added, is it an absolute must?
> Besides this is easy enough to fix if someone encounters a missing dependency.
Just try your best to be comprehensive; we can always add more dependencies as
they are found. But a comprehensive, accurate set of dependencies *is* a good
thing.
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-23 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-23 12:25 [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components Dan Armak
2001-07-23 12:30 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-07-23 12:49 ` Dan Armak
2001-07-23 12:51 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-07-23 13:36 ` Dan Armak
2001-07-24 14:07 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-07-24 14:43 ` Daniel Robbins
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