On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > why not just get rid of the idea of "latest" ? is there a scenario where > autotools would be inherited but not actually used/added to DEPEND ? i > guess that's what this all comes down to really ... If autotools were to be inherited by an eclass, and left to the eclass users to depending on the correct versions, I'd say.
Although for kde I simply preferred to depend always and be done with that (as half of KDE packages anyway already use them). -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
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