As soon as I sent that, I realized he was talking about binary packages. Even though they have their place, I don't particularly like them either.
Good night. Joseph Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:24:05AM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote: >> >> Under Gentoo, all of those various optional features would be represented >> >> by one of Gentoo's various USE flags, and those which were desired would >> >> be included. Those which were not would not be. >> > >> >But, if one emerges a binary package on Gentoo that was built on >> >another machine (that have different USE settings), will it know what >> >packages the binary package depends on? >> > >> >-- >> Gentoo users should feel free to correct me but it seems logical that the USE >> settings would determine depemdancies, not how it was compiled on someone else's >> computer. >> >> Yes? No? > >Both actually. Use flags are no substitute for package dependencies, they >are used as a method by which to determine what the build-time deps are >exactly. Obviously, those dependencies which are not needed at runtime >(gcc, for most things, for example) would not be listed in the runtime >dependencies. > > > _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
