On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:30:04 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I have a package that produces a dynamic (non-static) binary, and > it has no other deps, then I throw in virtual/libc. > > If it produces a static binary only, or no binary, then it gets "". If you're going to do that, static binaries would usually depend on virtual/libc to be built (using libc.a) so it would be in DEPEND but explicitly removed from RDEPEND. > What I would like to see at some point, is a real way of differencing > packages that really have no runtime dependencies - not even anything > in the system packages. As to what the best way to go about it, I'm > not certain, but I do think specifying a few packages: > virtual/compiler, virtual/libc and a few limited things from system > packages should be ok. Or maybe even virtual/system (with the > compiler removed from that virtual). -- Kevin F. Quinn
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