From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26128 invoked by uid 1002); 26 May 2003 18:52:11 -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 2722 invoked from network); 26 May 2003 18:52:10 -0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:49:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1053653430.29351.21.camel@mcvaio.liquidx.net> <20030526181230.GA6277%chutz@gg3.net> <1053973218.8263.28.camel@vader> In-Reply-To: <1053973218.8263.28.camel@vader> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305261149.36753.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes X-Archives-Salt: 90916883-0b23-4aad-aa64-d5a25da99864 X-Archives-Hash: 6cc03273f611d8e6553b1ef70dadfdb5 Ok, getting back to topic: DEPEND is a required field in ebuild (RDEPEND though may be omitted, in which case it is filled in from DEPEND). As such it makes sense to put some absolutely something basic in DEPEND for the package which does not have any apparent (as non-trivial, not bad-researched) dependencies. In that respect virtual/glibc perfectly fits the bill... On the other hand I had to delete this line from some DEPEND's where some other stuff has been listed as well. In this case virtual/glibc does not add anything meaningfull and only increases size of ebuild. As for number of packages that contain this "dependency": well it is quite common for packages to require some libs, etc. So majority of stuff in portage have non-empty DEPEND anyway.. George On Monday 26 May 2003 11:20, Edward Duffy wrote: > d'oh! I feel stupid. So it's about 20-25% of the ebuild that use that > depend on it...still seems kind of low. > > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 14:12, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > > On 26/05/2003 at 13:18:44(-0400), Edward Duffy used 0.8Kbytes just to say: > > > On the one ebuild I've sumbitted, the dev that committed it added a > > > line for > > > DEPEND="virtual/glibc" > > > > > > What wouldn't depend on glibc, isn't that a given? A quick scan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list