On Dec 30, 2007 6:50 PM, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a script coming up that can remove virtual/libc dependencies from > ebuilds automatically but can this be done safely for all ebuilds are > are there ebuilds in system that really need this dep for stage building > etc?
FWIW: "However, packages which are included in the system target, or are dependencies of system target packages, should generally include a complete dependency list (excluding bootstrap packages). This makes emerge -e system possible when installing from a stage 1 or stage 2 tarball." From the last paragraph on implicit dependencies in the devmanual at: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html > Are there other deps to like this that could be removed? At least > sys-libs/zlib could be one. I suppose all packages in /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages are suitable candidates. And maybe profile-specific implicit dependencies on profile-specific packages too, but those would be more complicated to locate. Denis.
