On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:16:25PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:04:43PM -0800, Jacob Meuser 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? > > The binary package would need to have dependencies, just as it does now.
Uh, yeah, but the question is, does emerge know what dependant packages to install? From what I've seen, emerge knows little about binary package dependencies, but does a good job when building packages. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
