On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:59:58 +0000 Steve Long
<slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
| How serious an issue is it in terms of deps on sys pkgs?

Very. It means we can't realistically handle packages that, by using
autotools, depend upon the fifty odd system packages that are used by
autotools-generated code.

| > | > DEPEND="virtual/c-toolchain" would indeed be nice, but it's a
| > | > rather large change...
| > | > 
| > | How so? Isn't it simply a new meta?
| > 
| > And an entire tree to update before it becomes meaningful.
| > 
| Sure, but the changes can propagate thru as people update their
| ebuilds, no?

The tricky part then is figuring out whether something doesn't dep upon
c-compiler because it doesn't need one or because the ebuilds haven't
been updated.

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