On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 -0400 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > >> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know > >> how to address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be > >> updated to contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need > >> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend. > >> > > > > Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me. > > I though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea. > > > > > Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one > of the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update. Now that's a big exaggeration. It _might_ be missing from world updates (there are still many cases where it will be included), but that's not the only available operation in portage. Marius -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
