From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82] helo=mailout05.sul.t-online.de) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15P8Rb-00075w-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:06:15 -0600 Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 15P8Rt-0005xg-01; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:06:33 +0200 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.238.109]) by fwd03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 15P8Rr-0P9hOyC; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:06:31 +0200 Received: (qmail 1879 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 2001 22:50:14 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gentoo.org) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 24 Jul 2001 22:50:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3B5DC2ED.E9E2FEE1@gentoo.org> From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components References: <01072321254601.00599@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Jul 24 14:07:08 2001 X-Original-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:48:13 +0200 X-Archives-Salt: ed67946c-1b50-4435-8733-fd5cf9ac4755 X-Archives-Hash: 611a41bd41276b8f10c94292dc1d277f Dan Armak wrote: > > Hi all, > > Can someone enlighten me: why DEPEND/RDEPEND on packages which are *always* > present on the system, and are even pre-built in build snapshots? For example > some ebuilds explicitly depend on virtual/glibc, what's the point in that? > Many ebuilds use things like flex bison etc. to compile. When creating > non-critical, non-system ebuilds which certainly won't be built before glibc > or the kernel - should I keep track of these things? Well the glibc dependencie is there to spearate packages that need glibc from those who do not link against it like for example docs or some java binary packages. If a package links agains flex then flex should be in the depend variable, if it only uses the flex binary during build, you don't have to add it to depend. bye achim~ > > -- > > Dan Armak > Gentoo Linux Developer > Matan, Israel > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org > http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev