And, on a more general note, don't bother depending on a package listed in base/packages. It's pointless and just create more noise.
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:11:17 +0000 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot of packages in the tree which DEPEND on some version > of sys-apps/portage, mostly for historical reasons. Try to avoid doing > this in your packages where possible -- if it's a genuine dependency > then obviously it should be there, but if the dep is only in the > ebuild to avoid hitting a bug that was in portage-2.0.49-r3 (for > example), it's unnecessary now. I'm going to be removing some of > these redundant deps. > > On which note, the current base profile specifies portage-2.0.51.22 or > later -- can anyone see a reason not to require 2.1? There are a lot > of packages that dep on portage-2.1 for the "wrong" reasons above, > which I'd like to be able to clean up. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
