On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:50:36 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marius Mauch wrote: > > In that case adding >=bash-3 to "system" isn't sufficient. I'll > > leave the detailed explanation to Brian, but the only thing you can > > rely on in the ebuild environment is what the used portage version > > has in it's dep strings when it was merged. > > Isn't that true only for stuff in ebuild's global scope? Well, for stuff in functions not called in global scope you can rely on the ebuild deps, but still not on the implicit "system" deps. > > Not that it has much practical relevance given the age of bash-3 > > and things depending on it (don't think anybody is still on bash-2), > > but adding it to "system" wouldn't help those people. > > This reminded me of this bug [1] we once got about OSX having only > 2.59, not sure if that still holds. Right, forgot about OSX being "special". Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
