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From: Kito <kito@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:44:36 -0500
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On Jul 7, 2005, at 6:56 AM, John Myers wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 July 2005 02:39, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
>
>> Also as already asked, what about the chicken egg issue ... (think  
>> tar
>> needing tar, or gzip needing gzip to unpack)?
>>
>
> The stages could come primed with the data that the packages on  
> them are
> already installed.

This is what I've been doing with the experimental Darwin stages as  
nearly every basesystem package has circular deps...


Kito
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