On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:09:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
| I disagree. You shouldn't expect to be able to compile things against
| it unless all DEPENDs are installed. The whole point of DEPEND is to
| be able to do things like this; remove all things not necessary for
| your programs to run, not to compile.

I'm glad to see you're volunteering to join in with Ned in going
through every single ebuild in the tree and fixing them up to list nth
level dependencies. It's going to be really fun watching you update
several hundred packages every time a library's compile dependencies
change between versions.

See, if libfoo-1.0's headers don't need (say) boost, but libfoo-1.1's
headers do, with what you're proposing you'd have to go through and
update the dependencies of every single package using libfoo.

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