On Thu, 2005-16-06 at 00:02 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> The problem with external libraries which are needed on non-glibc systems 
> (not 
> sure about uclibc) to have GNU-style functions is getting bigger.
> 
> Not only we need to depend on gettext and libiconv, but there's now also 
> another library, gnugetopt which provides getopt_long function non non-glibc 
> systems.
> 
> This is going to be a problem, because waiting for new virtuals for those 
> will 
> take a lot of time and Gentoo/FreeBSD is slowed down by this a lot.
> 
> I'm asking for a quick solution because Gentoo/FreeBSD is proceeding well but 
> this is hurting the possibility to have all the depends cleaned out.
> 
> There are other solutions a part the new virtuals?

Why dont you just add them to the profile as system packages ? 

-- 
Olivier Crête
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Gentoo Developer
x86 Security Liaison


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