Re: [gentoo-dev] Imprecise dependency specification causing problems with cave

2013-05-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Taahir Ahmed wrote: > It should be noted that the first position (that the dependencies specified in > the ebuilds are not sufficient) is the position of cave's developers. I tend > to agree -- How is cave to know that there hasn't been a brekaing change in a > li

[gentoo-dev] Imprecise dependency specification causing problems with cave

2013-05-12 Thread Taahir Ahmed
I've recently switched to using cave (part of the paludis project) as the package manager for my system. It's more conservative than emerge in some instances, specifically when it comes to bare dependencies (DEPENDS or RDEPENDS that are un-versioned). For example: * The ebuild for virtual/li