Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog profiles.desc

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:40:42 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Monday 17 September 2012 10:57:50 Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > net-misc/wget/wget-1.14.ebuild:
> > ~amd64-fbsd(default/bsd/fbsd/amd64/9.0) ['sys-apps/util-linux']
> > 
> > bumped by you, earlier, probably when you made your local change.
> > util-_linux_
> 
> except it isn't linux specific.  if you follow upstream, you'll see
> that people are constantly making sure that it is possible to build
> it on non-linux systems.

well, I've never been able to build it.

> 
> > uuid functions are provided by either e2fsprogs-libs or the
> > libc on freebsd.
> 
> e2fsprogs-libs hasn't provided libuuid in a long time.  that those
> are still in the tree is part laziness.  relying on it to provide
> libuuid isn't going to work.

i know, the libc ones should be used. libuuid, whereever it comes from,
will always only be used during a transition period while the package is
getting fixed to use the libc ones.