Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is your goal? Is there something you're trying to accomplish that's > impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of > work, and I don't understand the benefits.
With the current size of system packages set, having a complete deptree is impossible. You're one of the main followers of the idea that if a package is in system you don't have to depend on it, and I already talked to you about the problems there are with emerge -e world when for instance zlib is broken. So my goals are: - have a deptree as complete as possible; - being able to have an emerge -e world that actually builds first the stuff that's going to be needed (zlib before packages using zlib); - avoid overriding the system package set in profiles like embedded where stuff like autoconf and perl might not be wanted on the resulting filesystem. The first goal is a prerequisite if we want to move to other stuff like a true multilib-handling package manager (we don't want to force down the users' throats multiple copies of autoconf, considering it's a script, do we?) or proper cross-building environments. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
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