On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 05/11/14 02:16, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> When I was taking my ebuild quizzes, I asked for someone to clarify the >> implicit system dependency that we have enshrined in the devmanual: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485356 >> >> There is... some agreement, but also special cases and special-special >> cases that are folklore-only at this point. To me it seems like a fine >> thing to ask the council to sort out, so I'm asking here for discussion. >> >> Can we come up with an idiot-proof list (or FLOWCHART, even!) of what >> should and should not be excluded from *DEPEND? >> > > Assume a C runtime and a C compiler do exist. >
I would extend that to a C++ compiler and library as well.