From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GtEZc-0005DM-6y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:37:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBA2astw014481; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:36:54 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBA2Ysk3029491 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:34:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F0E8D305 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:56:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01950-05 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:56:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowdrop (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663FA8D304 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:56:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:34:36 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages Message-ID: <20061210023436.7d73ebfd@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <200612100322.52349.peper@gentoo.org> References: <20061210011117.36672693@blashyrk> <20061210013347.02fc22cd@blashyrk> <200612100322.52349.peper@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_ki7AZwDcHGbGI_AKFmLFPlP; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: a829e614-8407-4b02-89c8-0bb4dc16e61c X-Archives-Hash: ec3af3269d95db105597de4be127856a --Sig_ki7AZwDcHGbGI_AKFmLFPlP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:22:52 +0100 Piotr Jaroszy=C5=84ski wrote: | > 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. |=20 | It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of | generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib | b/c of that. It's necessary for some system packages, yes. In general, unless your package is likely to be included in part of system, there's no need to specify system dependencies. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis is faster : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=3D61 --Sig_ki7AZwDcHGbGI_AKFmLFPlP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFe3I/96zL6DUtXhERAmfbAKCqmf+/ec1U47bM8pIq//em3pIe4wCgo7Zp hx2lqmjXtwJJ+WfDmfpIZ88= =HLxn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_ki7AZwDcHGbGI_AKFmLFPlP-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list