On 15-08-2012 07:32:45 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 15-08-2012 12:58:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> > 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies > >> > of libraries in the core system it needs to link to. Careful use of > >> > package.provided in profiles might address this. > > > > Huh? Not sure I understand this, but it suggests something which isn't > > true for Prefix to me. > > Do you want every other package in the tree depending on glibc, and > therefore trying to pull it in on a prefix system? (For those > unaware, prefix depends on a non-Gentoo glibc for the system call > interface.)
Correction: Prefix uses a possibly non-Gentoo, host-provided libc, not necessarily GNU libc of an unknown version. There are only a few packages I've seen that depend on a certain (min/max) version of glibc, and when in use for Prefix, mostly use "!prefix? ( elibc_glibc? ( ...) )" stuff at the moment. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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