From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:04:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061217070429.126d8364@snowdrop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612171510.57159.jstubbs@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:10:57 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| I've tried to be objective here so if my viewpoint isn't obvious I'll
| state it outright. I think all packages should depend on every
| package that they need to build and/or run. Whether this is done
| explicitly or with meta-packages, I don't really care. The only
| reason for not being explicit with deps is to cater for old sloppy
| versions of portage. Unless there are other reasons not stated here?
If you mandate that, any package using autotools will need around fifty
new entries in DEPEND.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-17 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-10 1:11 [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on sys-apps/portage Stephen Bennett
2006-12-10 1:33 ` [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages Stephen Bennett
2006-12-10 2:22 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2006-12-10 2:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-10 12:33 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2006-12-10 2:50 ` Stephen Bennett
2006-12-11 11:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-11 11:35 ` Stephen Bennett
2006-12-11 11:45 ` Stephen Bennett
2006-12-11 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-16 18:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2006-12-16 20:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-16 20:21 ` Doug Goldstein
2006-12-16 23:36 ` Mike Doty
2006-12-17 7:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-17 7:02 ` Alec Warner
2006-12-16 20:51 ` Ryan Hill
2006-12-17 1:25 ` Ryan Hill
2006-12-17 1:27 ` Alec Warner
2006-12-17 1:44 ` Ryan Hill
2006-12-18 7:33 ` Steve Long
2006-12-17 6:10 ` Jason Stubbs
2006-12-17 7:04 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2006-12-17 7:41 ` Jason Stubbs
2006-12-17 7:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-18 7:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-18 8:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-20 4:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-20 10:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-29 15:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-29 18:01 ` Alec Warner
2007-01-01 9:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-01 13:49 ` Robert Buchholz
2007-01-01 22:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-02 5:16 ` Robert Buchholz
2007-01-03 21:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-04 3:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase (was: Dependencies on system packages) Ryan Hill
2007-01-04 10:45 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase Robert Buchholz
2007-01-05 1:12 ` Ryan Hill
2007-01-06 17:30 ` Steve Long
2007-01-06 17:29 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: metadatabase (was: Dependencies on system packages) Steve Long
2007-01-04 11:08 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dependencies on system packages Robert Buchholz
2007-01-06 17:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-17 8:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2006-12-17 8:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-18 7:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2006-12-10 16:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Lars Strojny
2006-12-10 8:39 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on sys-apps/portage Christian Faulhammer
2006-12-12 2:12 ` Stephen Bennett
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