[gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages

[Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org>]

And, on a more general note, don't bother depending on a package listed
in base/packages. It's pointless and just create more noise.


On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:11:17 +0000
Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org> wrote:

> There are a lot of packages in the tree which DEPEND on some version
> of sys-apps/portage, mostly for historical reasons. Try to avoid doing
> this in your packages where possible -- if it's a genuine dependency
> then obviously it should be there, but if the dep is only in the
> ebuild to avoid hitting a bug that was in portage-2.0.49-r3 (for
> example), it's unnecessary now. I'm going to be removing some of
> these redundant deps.
> 
> On which note, the current base profile specifies portage-2.0.51.22 or
> later -- can anyone see a reason not to require 2.1? There are a lot
> of packages that dep on portage-2.1 for the "wrong" reasons above,
> which I'd like to be able to clean up.
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