On 11/13/14 21:38, Michael Palimaka wrote:
On 14/11/14 11:06, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Michael Palimaka
<[email protected]> wrote:
Ditching implicit dependencies is an interesting idea but not practical.
Nobody wants to the laundry list, and there's little benefit in
maintaining a virtual/system clone of @system.
Well, the idea would be to maintain the virtual INSTEAD of @system, or
have @system just pull in the virtual and make some arch-specific
additions.
Will that work? Some profiles remove packages from the base @system and
replace it with their own implementations (eg. BSD).
Naively implemented, this would break my uclibc and musl builds which do
exactly that. However, you could build in logic, like `if use
elibc_uclibc; then`, or DEPEND="elibc_uclibc? ( ... )" etc.
I get the benefits of this approach, but I'm happy enough with the
status quo that I'm not in favor of the extra work.
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