From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14459 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 18:26:08 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 18:26:08 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzJWA-00036Q-TZ for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:26:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 1037 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2004 18:26:06 +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 2920 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 18:26:05 +0000 Message-ID: <412A36BA.4030200@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:26:02 -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> <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org> <1093283699.17304.31.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1093283699.17304.31.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness X-Archives-Salt: 49d9ccb7-b80e-409e-8b27-40fc2769a21f X-Archives-Hash: 70d8a6c1ee1873cb2eda3fafd777e510 Chris Gianelloni wrote: >On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:36, Lina Pezzella wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >Shouldn't anything provided by MacOS itself be considered part of >"system", since it would be there and is provided by the "system" >component, which in your case happens to be MacOS? > >Also, if you notice, I corrected myself. In my original post, I did not >mean that is how it should be done, but rather how it *is* done now in >practice. > > > It actually is provided by package.provided, so in the case of gzip it's a non-issue. I'm sorry for not being more clear on that. I didn't mean to make any statements on how it currently is done, just on how it should be done. Certain non-Linux userlands may not have the same system requirements -- therefore imho the safest and most accurate way to handle the situation is to provide proper DEPENDS in ebuilds regardless of whether it's provided by system or not. Just my two cents, nothing more. :-) Regards, Lina Pezzella -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list