From: Lina Pezzella <j4rg0n@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:36:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408231521.02247.stuart@gentoo.org>
Stuart Herbert wrote:
>On Monday 23 August 2004 15:09, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>
>
>>If the package is in system, it should not DEPEND on it *unless* it
>>requires a specific version or specific package (in the case of a
>>virtual).
>>
>>
>
>I disagree. Making sure that packages have as accurate a list of DEPENDs as
>possible can only make life easier when porting Gentoo to userlands that are
>not Linux.
>
>
I would entirely agree on the second point there. System for macos has
very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is
provided by MacOS. At this point in the game, where we are porting
Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume"
much of anything.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 13:47 [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:02 ` Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:09 ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-08-23 14:20 ` Stuart Herbert
2004-08-23 15:36 ` Lina Pezzella [this message]
2004-08-23 17:54 ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-08-23 18:26 ` Lina Pezzella
2004-08-24 15:30 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-24 15:59 ` Will Buckner
2004-09-07 12:55 ` Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:28 ` Chris Gianelloni
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