On Tuesday 05 July 2005 19:48, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > This is all well and dandy, but try to add coreutils as a dependency of > itself, or gcc of itself, or sed ... or grep ... etc, and then try to do > a stage1 install (probably stage2/3 as well, but I never do those, so > rather wont comment). > > The point that Mike and I make, is that portage cannot handle this (and > probably wont be able to in future without a _lot_ of black magic), and > this is why we need the system profile which have just the right amount > of DEPEND magic to make it work, and then everything else depends > automagically on the system profile (and everything in it). Making the > adding of system packages to non system packages really redundant.
Portage can handle this because it doesn't look at BDEPEND. Black magic is not required. Black magic is what we have now that is causing so many problems. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
