On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:27:48AM +0100, Spider wrote: > So, is there any way to make this behaviour work "better" with Gentoo? > The way that strikes me is to do it like RPM does, list library links > and depend on those files specifically. "foo won't install because it > depends on /usr/lib/libssl.so.7 which is not present"
Hmm - how about distributing a set of "compiled" ebuilds with the grp that have things like RDEPEND="dev-libs/openssl" replaced with RDEPEND="dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7-r1", and putting these in /usr/local/portage? Such a compilation would be pretty easy even without a tool, and trivial with. It's not ideal - in this example, a user with openssl-0.9.7 is going to be annoyed - but it does seem to fulfil your requirements. -- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
