On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:58:56 +0200
Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Judging from [1], a couple of thousands of ebuilds DEPEND on
> sys-apps/sed, which is a system package (in profiles/base/packages)
> since at least 2004. It boils down to some 2535 ebuilds, 1409 packages
> and 14 eclasses, some requiring a version as high as 4.0.5, which went
> stable in 2003.
To follow up on that, some 496 ebuilds explicitly DEPEND on
sys-apps/sed, with only a few apparently needing 4.1.5 and just the one
seemingly requiring 4.2 (though it isn't obvious from the actual sed
invocation). I haven't checked which of those RDEPEND on sys-apps/sed
too, but it shouldn't be many. That means some two thousand acquire
this DEPEND from an eclass, so for the majority of packages, this
redundancy could be easily fixed, while the rest of them would probably
keep inspiring developers new and old to keep introducing the dep or
indeed be insecure about removing it.
jer
