On Wednesday 15 June 2005 00:52, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:32:06 +0200
>
> Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't think gcc-config should depend on portage at all. Or does it
> > actually use portage services. In any case it should be an RDEPEND,
> > as building does not depend on portage being there.
>
> Hmm, how do you build an ebuild without portage? Not trying to defend
> that dependency, but technically all ebuilds DEPEND on portage (or a
> compatible package manager), that's the most implicit dependency of
> all.

I think you know what I mean. By definition portage is allready there for 
the ebuild to be evaluated. It is therefore unnecessary to specify it as 
a dependency. Besides that for most packages any compatible package 
manager should work (there just is only portage now though).

Paul

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