On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:05:19 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > I don't like it. It removes the ability to DEPEND (which you spelt | > wrong, btw) upon the correct auto* version. | Yeah I know I typoed. | About the version.. well you just can't depend upon a specified | version anyway. | When you depend on whatever autoconf it depends on autoconf-wrapper, | that depends on both the version of autoconf we have. | The same goes for automake.
The circular autothing <-> wrapper dependency will be phased out at some point in the future once all auto* deps properly specify versions. The aim is to remove the need to install certain obscure auto* slots that are becoming rarer and rarer. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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