On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> wrote: > There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain > (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use > "!prefix? ( elibc_glibc? ( ...) )" > stuff at the moment.
Half the packages in portage link to libc, though they don't actually declare this dependency due to the policy of not declaring policies in @system. If you got rid of @system then they'd need to declare them. However, use of virtuals or package.provided would address this issue - I was just pointing it out. Rich
