On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:10:57 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I've tried to be objective here so if my viewpoint isn't obvious I'll | state it outright. I think all packages should depend on every | package that they need to build and/or run. Whether this is done | explicitly or with meta-packages, I don't really care. The only | reason for not being explicit with deps is to cater for old sloppy | versions of portage. Unless there are other reasons not stated here?
If you mandate that, any package using autotools will need around fifty new entries in DEPEND. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis is faster : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=61
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