On 11/04/2014 08:16 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > When I was taking my ebuild quizzes, I asked for someone to clarify the > implicit system dependency that we have enshrined in the devmanual: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485356 > > There is... some agreement, but also special cases and special-special > cases that are folklore-only at this point. To me it seems like a fine > thing to ask the council to sort out, so I'm asking here for discussion. > > Can we come up with an idiot-proof list (or FLOWCHART, even!) of what > should and should not be excluded from *DEPEND? > > In my opinion, it's safe to ignore deps on glibc and gcc at this time, I personally don't ignore any other deps. On of my long term goals is to remove as much as humanly possible from the system set and replace it with the packages.default concept. I can't say we are far enough to actually do this yet, but that's why it's a long term goal.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393445 -Zero
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