From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD811381F4 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91C9AE0AF7; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5350AE0829 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so645261bkw.40 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:50:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=MZWi0bVNh4ymf7HgqmbI8U7tipuMuol9F9eDyli5TIM=; b=hH+2wxLhvkFeY02G2RpZkzVYA+8s0bBmq70UBV/IhnctROribyd5hmlXA3BgbPLPlG gGl+fPnMJdmXhvBoJoDqiYBCUgWjHqVFOFR/waRwMD83mv8m9NV+ltBOwMx9f4wkuxPh 8xovYrWXTiavkf/1ByieNyzBV5qxd5NQQAIJdZLgBAoqY7ItaaXlYbGJ2EsTp+JPa9zF J2PEKsZNj92AAheEnyn8/roz5o+9hya7uw27YV5tdSxnJEsev2kaHx8OoVGi4JdVwUsa FcHKnnJxvGCQs/OF81ned6ULUOAxd4qgPySF+uxd5u79+FyRwBYc8OC+vU0X3UzNe57A T40A== 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 10.204.9.194 with SMTP id m2mr7459835bkm.132.1345031442295; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.128.136 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:50:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120815114153.GX10705@gentoo.org> References: <20120809195727.5d04ccff@googlemail.com> <20120814032416.GA8489@kroah.com> <20120815125832.39c72a82@pomiocik.lan> <20120815110757.GV10705@gentoo.org> <20120815114153.GX10705@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:50:42 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Dxq3m7D5-MCFEfcQvNiWKktoOQQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 08543bab-4d14-490e-95d5-e67aafc45501 X-Archives-Hash: f19b66fd83e344aaee40e555a11750b9 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain > (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use > "!prefix? ( elibc_glibc? ( ...) )" > stuff at the moment. Half the packages in portage link to libc, though they don't actually declare this dependency due to the policy of not declaring policies in @system. If you got rid of @system then they'd need to declare them. However, use of virtuals or package.provided would address this issue - I was just pointing it out. Rich