On Friday 01 July 2005 20:42, Brian D. Harring wrote: > Err... missing the point, and proving my point. Current portage > _will_ fail because it's an unstated dependency. Why shouldn't > portage be provided the deps it needs so it can figure out what is > needed to get to what the user requested? BDEPEND is not going to resolve the case Mike shown.
GCC bdepends over GCC to compile, you don't have GCC, you can't install GCC, you can't install anything (a part from binpkgs). But if you put GCC in profile, no need to depend on it, you'll always have one also if nothign depends on it and the problem is resolved. BTW, as I already stated on irc, GCC is a RDEPEND not a BDEPENED because of libgcc_s.so and libstdc++.so, so... -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)
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