From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8517 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 15:36:31 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 15:36:31 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzGs2-00048p-U9 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:36:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 10210 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2004 15:36:30 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18333 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 15:36:30 +0000 Message-ID: <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:36:27 -0400 From: Lina Pezzella User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Macintosh/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4129F56D.6020701@butsugenjitemple.org> <1093270141.17302.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200408231521.02247.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200408231521.02247.stuart@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness X-Archives-Salt: 630b8495-c2cf-40fd-a0ce-143cf1659a1c X-Archives-Hash: db6c8cb3510dbb537f1940bd060e74f6 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list