From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QGdm3-000215-PD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 21:01:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C32FF1C0AC; Sun, 1 May 2011 21:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D371C07B for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 21:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so4880528vws.40 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=qDx69zGBmM5ivDge4fwGFYYDNBRLsvshJEYgwXhSWZQ=; b=G7/xfoF8Glxt8k5vM+/F01a92dDxxgEsT877QnEmpSvGdNsAzRIJWjazYOUwl/3poZ vHowR0+vQuJuSRpheZ3Zo2J9cOu917bGkZJ/QdTCLIv+LoqGohkmoGYxU1aOizXT4Pa4 yJ0NvaH3U3EVd1wTPWJEBHfGIRpzAkBFysEF0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=W8so9PYtbNDUN6bt5o+lxKz3H0lnR/bLK5mlQxsI5qLWQZlpWWdOytk6VRAcxD5SKv qfpXjiArmu6jRApKNz27jRW4BsXEitGrWIJnNsDzP5f3NkQKywLRe/RrZ32vWeqb3ior zHU2Hp0F1usj641Jk6Eq6U6Wv1zZd8l6KNlVA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.45.134 with SMTP id e6mr2138052vcf.55.1304283672343; Sun, 01 May 2011 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kolmax94@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.70.206 with HTTP; Sun, 1 May 2011 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110501214137.1e0414f8@googlemail.com> References: <20110501214137.1e0414f8@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 01:01:12 +0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bRQq7WNvNoIklBiL6BwnFFnGPLk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual for tftp server From: Maxim Koltsov To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 931af23150cf8235708a7d6e1cb846cd 2011/5/2 Ciaran McCreesh : > If it doesn't care about what the tftp server is, presumably that means > that the package itself doesn't actually use the tftp server (and if > it did call the tftp server, it would need to know the syntax for each > individual package, so it wouldn't be a virtual). So why would it be a > DEPEND? I meant RDEPEND, sorry. > Since suggested dependencies don't exist yet, what's wrong with just > elogging a message suggesting the user install a tftp server of their > choice? I think this is uncomfortable for user.