On Tuesday 08 of January 2008 02:02:56 Petteri Räty wrote: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti: > > Here comes the official proposal, copy and paste from my blog with an > > extra post scriptum at the end. > > > > I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our ebuilds > > is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying to get > > this fixed was impossible, as Donnie and other insisted that as zlib was > > in system, we shouldn’t depend on it at all. I disagree, and I would > > like to know why we can’t depend on a system package, but whatever. > > At least one reason is that otherwise lots of ebuild submissions would > have coreutils/gcc/libc/whatever in DEPEND/RDEPEND.
We could probably introduce some fancy virtuals like c-toolchain to reduce the bloat, but the transition would be somehow tricky... would probably need a list of already converted packages. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
