Marius Mauch wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 -0400
Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Olivier Crête wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know
how to address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be
updated to contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need
RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend.
Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me.
I though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea.
Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one
of the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update.
Now that's a big exaggeration. It _might_ be missing from world updates
(there are still many cases where it will be included), but that's not
the only available operation in portage.
Marius
We discussed this in #gentoo-portage the other day where I had a machine
that was on gcc 4.3.1 (not -r1) and glibc 2.7 and didn't want to upgrade
either of those packages to the latest ~arch.
