On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 05:01, Spider wrote: > Well, I'd like to see proper use of DEPEND vs. RDEPEND instead. > rpm2targz is a DEPEND but not an RDEPEND, and having a portage that > automatically suggests "DEPEND" and not RDEPEND packages as "unneeded" > could be a good thing.
I was going to put the same in my email, although I can't see this happening any time soon... > Another idea is to have portage install all RDEPEND but not DEPEND > -after- the package, thereby locking down even more dependency bugs with > malcreated packages. That would good in the long run, but the disruption it would cause won't be pretty. -- Ian Leitch Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~port001/port001-pgp-key.asc Fingerprint: 91AE 2E49 3DE6 B714 E0F0 D2E3 79F6 7879 6017 4462
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